Google forced by internal conflict to end censored Chinese search engine project

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/
https://archive.is/dSt4p

GOOGLE HAS BEEN forced to shut down a data analysis system it was using to develop a censored search engine for China after members of the company’s privacy team raised internal complaints that it had been kept secret from them, The Intercept has learned.

The internal rift over the system has had massive ramifications, effectively ending work on the censored search engine, known as Dragonfly, according to two sources familiar with the plans. The incident represents a major blow to top Google executives, including CEO Sundar Pichai, who have over the last two years made the China project one of their main priorities.

The dispute began in mid-August, when the The Intercept revealed that Google employees working on Dragonfly had been using a Beijing-based website to help develop blacklists for the censored search engine, which was designed to block out broad categories of information related to democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest, in accordance with strict rules on censorship in China that are enforced by the country’s authoritarian Communist Party government.

 

[Slap47]

I don't trust that at all. I think the whole thing is put on stand by. I might sound black-pilled but the system that Google was building for China is the Silicon Valley's vision of the future, especially since the 2016 US elections. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 10 years the western countries will ask Google to make a version for each country.

I suspect they'll try to sneak it in as something small, like something to be used by employers.

It really needs to be emphasized that the govt doesn't have to be involved for this to spiral into something horrifying.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Stop. Using. Google.

 

[Colonel J]

I'd rather google work for China than ZOG.

 

[XYZpdq]

Stop. Using. Google.

let me know when cuckcuckblow can give me directions home

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

let me know when cuckcuckblow can give me directions home

Look at a map like people did fucking 15 years ago. Or just use GPS.

 

[tehpope]

All the people realizing how shitty Google is...is it finally Bing’s time to shine?

https://searx.me/
https://www.startpage.com/

Google is probably the best, but these two do offer pretty good search results.

 

[Ms. Cegination]

let me know when cuckcuckblow can give me directions home

https://www.openstreetmap.org/directions

 

[Baklava]

My guess is Google already gave the stuff needed for a search engine to the Chinese gov't and a Chinese censorship-happy search engine that conveniently doesn't have Google's name attached will come out within the next year or two.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Stop. Using. Google.

At the very least practice in garbage in, garbage out.

Don't put anything truly personal through your cell phone. Blabber on about Star Trek, Anime, and your DnD Campaign. Make those damn spooks enter the den of exceedingly dull autism till they want to kill themselves.

 

[DennisReynolds]

My guess is Google already gave the stuff needed for a search engine to the Chinese gov't and a Chinese censorship-happy search engine that conveniently doesn't have Google's name attached will come out within the next year or two.

And they shall call it Gookle. You heard it here first folks.

 

[Slap47]

Stop. Using. Google.

Consumer solutions are no longer possible. Companies require people to use it and companies have to work with other companies, etc.

This actually does warrant a govt intervention.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

What companies require you to use google applications in your free time? Sounds like an excuse to be a slacktivist to me. "It doesn't matter if I use google, only da gubment can stop them anyway."

At the very least practice in garbage in, garbage out.

Don't put anything truly personal through your cell phone. Blabber on about Star Trek, Anime, and your DnD Campaign. Make those damn spooks enter the den of exceedingly dull autism till they want to kill themselves.

Or even better, just use it to search for deviant porn. I hope you like fat anthrompomorphic trains, Google.

 

[Slap47]

Or even better, just use it to search for deviant porn. I hope you like fat anthrompomorphic trains, Google.

Seems like a good way to get tech to lobby against porn.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Seems like a good way to get tech to lobby against porn.

Even better then, that will destroy them.

 

[TowinKarz]

Google needs trust-busted

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

Just stop using them you lazy fuckers. What makes them money is data mining for ads. They can't survive without users.

 

[Slap47]

Even better then, that will destroy them.

They have religious conservatives and sjws to tap into so I doubt even porn would be able to survive.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

They have religious conservatives and sjws to tap into so I doubt even porn would be able to survive.

Religious conservatives are dying and SJWs are pussies. Porn survived real hardasses like Oliver Cromwell. Some weepy dangerhair or 90 year old on dialysis won't be able to stop it.

 

[AnOminous]

Stop. Using. Google.

needs more varg.

 

[Cyber Bullying]

i love the way this thread took a small detours on "let's envisage nuking china" land