"Applicants to Google must absolutely have no morality"

Amnesty International is attacking Google again against the search engine Dragonfly for China. Even Google employees are now demonstrating publicly.

Supporters and members of Amnesty International demonstrated Tuesday against Google in several countries. The Dragonfly project is at the origin of protests by human rights defenders. The censored search engine named would filter websites and search queries in China about human rights, democracy, religion or peaceful protests, as leaked during the summer. This would correspond to the strict censorship rules of communist leaders in Beijing.

Already during the summer, Amnesty International had spoken of a serious violation of freedom of information. The human rights organization says that if Google listed the for-profit search engine in China, it would sooner or later be in other countries. Google boss Sundar Pichai said he was not about to launch a search engine in China. He did not give any other information.

Video that jokes Google

Amnesty International has launched a satirical Google recruitment video alongside the protests. In one of these areas, an actor said: "To apply, you must have excellent programming skills, five years of experience, absolutely no morals and be willing to share personal information users."

Google is banned in China because it did not want to bow to censorship, at least until now. The group seeks to access the world's largest Internet market with 730 million Internet users. However, Google is well established in the Middle Kingdom, with a research center opened in Beijing late 2017, for example.

Nevertheless, more than 1,400 employees signed an internal letter in August to protest against Dragonfly. On Tuesday, Google employees published an open letter criticizing the Dragonfly project.

Profits before convictions

At present, the letter already has nearly 400 appointed signatories. Many would have started with Google with the firm belief that the company put its conviction before profits. They do not want to work on technologies that help strong people to suppress the weak. "Google is too powerful to steal responsibilities." The search engine did not comment on the letter or the recent Amnesty International campaign.

Google likes to be progressive and exemplary in terms of business culture. But recently, rumors of censorship have not only shaken society: thousands of Google employees demonstrated in early November to protest against abuses such as badism, racism and abuse of power by executives who have temporarily suspended their work.

According to reports, Andy Rubin's group – the head behind the Android operating system – has adopted his departure in 2014 despite serious allegations of badual restraint and praise and severance pay $ 90 million.

Campaign of the ex-wife

Rubin denied the charges and attributed his appearance to an alleged hate campaign by his ex-wife. In addition, should have been held on two other executive protection hands, wrote the newspaper.

Google's CEO, Pichai, quickly took a stand and said that the company was taking a hard line on misconduct and had fired 48 people in the past two years on charges of badual harbadment.

For Google, such events are not only explosive for image reasons. The company aspires to recruit the best employees. However, those who start there can usually find a job almost anywhere in the information technology sector – and so should think twice before working for an employer producing such titles.

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