Google wants to bow to China's censorship requirements - employees have moral concerns
More than 1,000 Google employees have written a letter raising concerns about the search engine giant's return to China.
The censored search engine with the project name "Dragonfly" (dragonfly) raises "urgent moral and ethical questions," the U.S. portal "The Intercept" quoted Thursday from the letter to the group's management, which also calls for more information about the plans. Only a few employees are privy to it, it said.
The employees further argued that it was unclear whether the project violated the company's ethics rules, which said that Google would not offer services that lead to human rights violations. Activists and human rights activists had already reacted with outrage in early August, when several U.S. media outlets reported on Google's new China plans.
According to the report, the censored search engine for the Android mobile operating system would sort out websites blocked in China and search queries for human rights, democracy, religion or peaceful protests, for example. (SDA)
