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posted by martyb on Tuesday August 07 2018, @12:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the searching-for-an-answer dept.

iTWire:

Only a few of the search behemoth's 88,000 workers were briefed on the project before The Intercept reported on 1 August that Google had plans to launch a censored mobile search app for the Chinese market, with no access to sites about human rights, democracy, religion or peaceful protest.

The customised Android search app, with different versions known as Maotai and Longfei, was said to have been demonstrated to Chinese Government authorities.

In a related development, six US senators from both parties were reported to have sent a letter to Google chief executive Sundar Pichai, demanding an explanation over the company's move.

One source inside Google, who witnessed the backlash from employees after news of the plan was reported, told The Intercept: "Everyone's access to documents got turned off, and is being turned on [on a] document-by-document basis.

"There's been total radio silence from leadership, which is making a lot of people upset and scared. ... Our internal meme site and Google Plus are full of talk, and people are a.n.g.r.y."


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:47PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 07 2018, @11:47PM (#718515)

    Sorry, there's no way a human life that I've never known about is going to matter as much to me as someone I've cared about for years.

    I've never met the vast, vast majority of US citizens, even though I am a US citizen. So, I care about them as much as I do some random foreigners. I don't care about someone less just because they happened to be born on a different patch of dirt than I was.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 08 2018, @12:51AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 08 2018, @12:51AM (#718548) Journal

    I've never met the vast, vast majority of US citizens, even though I am a US citizen. So, I care about them as much as I do some random foreigners.

    A lot of this is not that you care because someone shares a label, but because the shared label implies other shared things. For example, assuming that you have people you care about in the US, but not in Zimbabwe, then you'd care more when authorities jail people for their opinions in the US than in Zimbabwe because the shared label of US means that people you care about are at threat from those US authorities while they wouldn't be from Zimbabwe authorities (unless they happened to travel in Zimbabwe which is a danger that can be avoided if one so chooses).

  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday August 08 2018, @12:53AM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 08 2018, @12:53AM (#718549) Journal

    I don't care about someone less just because they happened to be born on a different patch of dirt than I was

    Very well put.