{"id":389023,"date":"2018-12-13T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dragonfly-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T16:50:14","slug":"dragonfly-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/dragonfly-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt\u00a0its controversial project<\/a>\u00a0called\u00a0Dragonfly<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is Project Dragonfly?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dragonfly is a search engine specially built for China. It would unleash more censorship on a mass scale by selectively blocking certain search terms, apparently at the behest of China\u2019s government. Human rights groups are\u00a0blasting the company<\/a>\u00a0for aiding and abetting China\u2019s mass surveillance and rights violations which could result in potential imprisonment.<\/p>\n

It turns out Google\u2019s employees had been unwittingly working on this project for a while until 2017 without knowing its intended purpose. News of this highly secret program finally leaked and no one is letting it get swept under the rug.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, since the news leaked out, no amount of time has caused advocates and free speech lovers to forget this scandal. Those in the know are using the hashtag\u00a0#DropDragonfly<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sundar Pichai seems to be keen on protecting Google users privacy. So why does he want to give user data to Chinese authorities to help them arrest or imprison people? #DropDragonfly<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Joe Westby (@JoeWestby) December 11, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How would the Dragonfly search engine in China Work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The search engine would censure terms like \u201chuman rights\u201d and \u201creligion.\u201d Hundreds of Google employees have called this out as obvious freedom of speech violations.<\/p>\n

BBC reported<\/a>\u00a0in August:
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The search app would \u201cblacklist sensitive queries\u201d, The Intercept says, identifying and filtering websites currently blocked by China\u2019s so-called Great Firewall.<\/p>\n

According to documents it had…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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More than 1,400 Google staff, many journalists, and human rights organizations are calling on Google to halt\u00a0its controversial project\u00a0called\u00a0Dragonfly. What is Project Dragonfly? Dragonfly is a search engine specially built for China. It would unleash more censorship on a mass scale by selectively blocking certain search terms, apparently at the behest of China\u2019s government. Human […]<\/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-389023","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\/389023","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=389023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}