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August 2, 2018

Google Readying "Dragonfly" Censored Search Engine in China
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Google is preparing to launch a service in China that will allow Chinese
censors to block search terms about human rights, democracy, religion
and peaceful protest. That's according to The Intercept, which reports
that the project, code-named Dragonfly, was launched in the spring of
last year and accelerated after Google's CEO met with a top Chinese
government official in December. In response, Patrick Poon of Amnesty
International told The Intercept, "The biggest search engine in the
world obeying the censorship in China is a victory for the Chinese
government-it sends a signal that nobody will bother to challenge the
censorship any more."


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