{"id":377443,"date":"2018-09-16T03:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T02:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T03:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T02:40:41","slug":"senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Google Scientist Quits over Censored Chinese Search Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/09\/13\/report-senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine\/\"><strong>Breitbart<\/strong><\/a><br \/>September 14, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jack Poulson, a senior research scientist at Google, has quit the company in protest over the tech titan\u2019s development of a censored search engine for China, claiming it represents a \u201cforfeiture of our values.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/09\/13\/google-china-search-engine-employee-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Intercept<\/a>,\u00a0Poulson \u201craised concerns with his managers at Google after the Intercept revealed that the Internet giant was secretly developing a Chinese search app for Android devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter entering into discussions with his bosses, Poulson decided in mid-August that he could no longer work for Google. He tendered his resignation and his last day at the company was August 31,\u201d they reported, adding that he is possibly one of five employees to leave the company in protest.<\/p>\n<p>In his resignation letter, Poulson claimed he was leaving to \u201cavoid contributing to\u201d the \u201cerosion of protection for dissidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents,\u201d he declared.\u00a0\u201cI view our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exchange for access to the Chinese market as a forfeiture of our values and governmental negotiating position across the globe\u2026 There is an all-too-real possibility that other nations will attempt to leverage our actions in China in order to demand our compliance with their security demands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/09\/13\/report-senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Friday, September 14, 2018  at  5:28 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow --><br \/>\n      <!-- end of share and follow --><\/p>\n<div class=\"print_sub\">\n<h3 class=\"sub_titles\">&#13;<br \/>\n        \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/report-senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine.html\/print\/\" title=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print\" title=\"Print\" style=\"border: 0px;\"\/><\/a><br \/>\nPrint this page.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<p><!--\n      \n\n<div class=\"nextpage\">\n              <\/div>\n\n \n -->    <\/p>\n<p><!--\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gm2pZEeYN0E?list=UUvsye7V9psc-APX6wV1twLg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/report-senior-google-scientist-quits-over-censored-chinese-search-engine.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartSeptember 14, 2018 Jack Poulson, a senior research scientist at Google, has quit the company in protest over the tech titan\u2019s development of a censored search engine for China, claiming it represents a \u201cforfeiture of our values.\u201d According to the Intercept,\u00a0Poulson \u201craised concerns with his managers at Google after the Intercept revealed that the Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}