A bipartisan group of six U.S. senators is demanding that
Google CEO Sundar Pichai explain the company’s plan to launch a censored
version of its search engine in China.
Since spring 2017, the internet giant has been developing a censored
Android search app to launch in the country as part of a secretive
project code-named Dragonfly, The Intercept revealed
on Wednesday. The app would manipulate search results in accordance
with strict censorship rules in China that are mandated by the ruling
Communist Party regime, which restricts people’s access to information
about political opponents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and
peaceful protest. The censored Google search has been designed to
“blacklist sensitive queries” so that “no results will be shown” at all
when people enter certain words or phrases, according to internal Google
documents.
In a letter sent to Pichai
on Friday, the six lawmakers called the Google plan “deeply troubling”
and said that it “risks making Google complicit in human rights abuses
related to China’s rigorous censorship regime.”
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Source: The Intercept_
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