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This week, Google acknowledged having canceled its secret and controversial project to build a Chinese search engine, Dragonfly, censored websites and censoring websites and search results pertaining to human rights, the democracy, religion, etc. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO)
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In a Senate court hearing Earlier this week, Karan Bhatia, vice president of public policy at Google, confirmed that the technology giant had abandoned the work of its secret project called Dragonfly, a censored search engine designed for the Chinese market.
"We have completed the Dragonfly project," Bhatia confirmed in response to Senator Josh Hawley's questions about Google's past and present activities in China.
"You are happy to censor the Chinese authoritarian repressive regime, such as with Google.cn," said Hawley (R-Missouri). "Happy to censor any mention of Tiananmen Square, happy to help the Chinese government to keep control of all the information in the country, happy to help to control the flow of information sent to its own citizens. You are happy to do all this. Would not you call it censorship with an ideological agenda?
According to Bhatia, Google left China in 2010 because the tech giant at that time, in addition to being under cyber attack, felt that the censorship requirements applied to Google were not compatible with his mission at that time.
Obviously, things have evolved since and, like the Intercept investigation site discovered& nbsp; last year, Google launched a secret project for & nbsp; launch a Chinese search engine & nickname; Dragonfly label in spring 2017, which filters websites & nbsp; and research findings on human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protests. Web censorship requirements imposed by the Chinese government.
Google is still not ready to commit to no longer censoring China in the future
Insisting that Google does not currently provide a search engine in mainland China-C is the case of its subsidiary in Hong Kong-Bhatia did not want to promise that Google would not participate in any form of censorship with the Chinese regime in China against Chinese citizens in the future.
"Do you want to commit to that? You will not accept any information or restrictions on the flow of data in China and the Chinese market, "said Hawley, who also mentioned the blocking of search terms for Uyghurs and concentration camps.
In response, Bhatia just said that in China, Google "actually does very little [business] today, certainly compared to any other big tech company, and that the Silicon Valley company is not currently planning to go to China in the research market.
"What we are ready to commit to Senator, is that any decision to return to the China research market would be one that we would only take in consultation with key stakeholders," he said. added Bhatia.
What prompted the senator's response: "You have been more than willing to engage in ideological censorship on the world's largest market.You have been more than happy to badociate yourself with the most repressive authoritarian regime. from the planet, all for profit, no matter what is advantageous for Google Why would anyone believe you now? "
Atherton Research Insights
Although Google has confirmed the end of its Dragonfly project, the Silicon Valley giant has failed to commit to not enter the Chinese research market.
However, it is important to remember that Microsoft Bing& nbsp; The search engine is currently available in China and its search results are censored according to the guidelines of the Chinese government.
European search engine qwant is another Western provider of cloud research that is also allowed to operate in the Chinese market, currently dominated by Baidu.
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This week, Google acknowledged having canceled its secret and controversial project to build a Chinese search engine, Dragonfly, censored websites and censoring websites and search results pertaining to human rights, the democracy, religion, etc. (Photo by OSCAR DEL POZO)
Getty
Karan Bhatia, vice president of public policy at Google, confirmed at a hearing before the judiciary this week that the technology giant had abandoned work on his secret project called Dragonfly, a search engine. censored search designed for the Chinese market.
"We ended the Dragonfly project," Bhatia confirmed in response to Senator Josh Hawley's questions about Google's past and present activities in China.
"You are happy to censor the Chinese authoritarian repressive regime, such as with Google.cn," said Hawley (R-Missouri). "Happy to censor any mention of Tiananmen Square, happy to help the Chinese government to keep control of all the information in the country, happy to help to control the flow of information sent to its own citizens. You are happy to do all this. Would not you call it censorship with an ideological agenda?
According to Bhatia, Google left China in 2010 because the tech giant at that time, in addition to being under cyber attack, felt that the censorship requirements applied to Google were not compatible with his mission at that time.
Obviously, things have evolved since and, as the investigative information site The Intercept discovered last year, Google launched in the spring of 2017 a secret project to launch a Chinese search engine christened Dragonfly, which filters websites and search results on human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protest – all based on the requirements of web censorship imposed by the Chinese government.
Google is still not ready to commit to no longer censoring China in the future
Insisting that Google currently does not provide a search engine in mainland China-C is the case of its subsidiary in Hong Kong-Bhatia did not want to promise that Google would not participate in any form of censorship with the Chinese regime in China against Chinese citizens in the future.
"Do you want to commit to that? You will not accept any information or restrictions on the data flow in China, in the Chinese market, "said Hawley, who also mentioned the blocking of search terms for Uyghurs and concentration camps.
In response, Bhatia just said that in China, Google "actually does very little [business] today, certainly compared to any other big tech company, and that the Silicon Valley company is not currently planning to go to China in the research market.
"What we are ready to commit to Senator, is that any decision to return to the China research market would be one that we would only take in consultation with key stakeholders," he said. added Bhatia.
The senator reacted as follows: "You are more than willing to adopt ideological censorship on the largest market in the world.You have been more than delighted to join the most repressive authoritarian regime on the planet, all for profits, no matter what they are, are good for Google Why would anyone believe you now? "
Atherton Research Insights
Although Google has confirmed the end of its Dragonfly project, the Silicon Valley giant has failed to commit to not enter the Chinese research market.
However, it is important to remember that Microsoft's Bing search engine is currently available in China and that the results of this search are censored according to the guidelines of the Chinese government.
The European search engine Qwant is another Western cloud search provider that is also allowed to operate in the Chinese market, currently dominated by Baidu.
