When I worked at Google, as an engineer on Google News, I was asked to write code to censor news articles in China (circa 2006). I refused and they took me off the project and put someone else on it. Doesn't surprise me Google is back at it. "Don't be Evil" is a Google myth.https://twitter.com/PoliticalShort/status/1040804462523236352 …
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Since this is getting some attention, I want to explain what happened in more detail. At the time Google was censoring Web results, but this was widely known. It was a conscious decision: being in China and censoring was better for the Chinese people than not being there at all.
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Or at least that was the rationalization. It was not widely known that Google intended to censor News in China. So I got up at an engineering "all hands" meeting (few hundred people) and complained about what we were going to do. Ironically, I got some applause for this.
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Nothing immediately came of this so I also emailed the CEO, Eric Schmidt, and complained. He referred my complaint to Alan Eustace who was a Senior VP of engineering at the time. Nothing came of it and the policy of censoring went ahead.
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