LIBERTY BLITZKRIEG
by Jake Johnson
8/1/2018
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Within Google, knowledge about Dragonfly has been restricted to just a few hundred members of the internet giant’s 88,000-strong workforce, said a source with knowledge of the project. The source spoke to The Intercept on condition of anonymity, as they were not authorized to contact the media. The source said that they had moral and ethical concerns about Google’s role in the censorship, which is being planned by a handful of top executives and managers at the company with no public scrutiny.
“I’m against large companies and governments collaborating in the oppression of their people, and feel like transparency around what’s being done is in the public interest,” the source said, adding that they feared “what is done in China will become a template for many other nations.”
From The Intercept article: Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal
Today’s post will explain why I think the U.S. tech giants are in the early stages of destroying themselves. It will focus on two of the biggest names in the space, Facebook and Google. Both face serious issues that are only now truly coming to a head and rooted in two primary factors, size and politics.
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……. If what The Intercept is reporting today is true, Google’s become so desperate for growth and new revenue streams, it’s decided to become an active and willing participant in keeping over 1 billion Chinese ignorant and oppressed in the pursuit of some extra cash.
From the article, Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal:
Google is planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest, The Intercept can reveal.
The project – code-named Dragonfly – has been underway since spring of last year, and accelerated following a December 2017 meeting between Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai and a top Chinese government official, according to internal Google documents and people familiar with the plans…
Google’s search service cannot currently be accessed by most internet users in China because it is blocked by the country’s so-called Great Firewall. The app Google is building for China will comply with the country’s strict censorship laws, restricting access to content that Xi Jinping’s Communist Party regime deems unfavorable…
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China’s Censorship Obsession
MisesInstitute
by William Hongsong Wang
6/22/18
Excerpt:
The Chinese government has recently produced a lot of international news: the trade war with the U.S. government; the suspicious financing on Malaysia’s former corrupted ruling party; the suppression on Taiwan’s foreign and diplomatic space, etc. Excluding the news related to international politics, the Chinese government was also fighting against the Chinese internet users at the same time. What exactly is going on?
Let’s review these entire events. During the first semi-final of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, Irish singer Ryan O’Shaughnessy’s performance featured two male dancers expressing a gay love story. This might not be a big deal in Western countries, but in China, the program violates the latest media censorship regulations. Therefore, Eurovision’s Chinese agent Mango TV deleted all of O’Shaughnessy’s song performance . At the same time, by the new media censorship regulations, Mango TV also blurred the rainbow flag that appeared in the competition and the tattoo of another Azerbaijani contestant . Subsequently, due to the intervention from EBU, Eurovision had to retreat from the Chinese market temporarily.
In addition to this Eurovision incident, Peppa Pig, Winnie the Pooh, tattoos, and Hip-Pop are all prohibited from transmitting in media in various forms. Obviously, the Chinese government has recently intensified media censorship. In the ongoing 2018 FIFA World Cup, we will undoubtedly see many tattooed soccer players. But China’s soccer players were also recently ordered to cover their tattoos on the match day, and due to the recent media censorship regulations, is the Chinese government ready for blurring all the tattooed players when the World Cup matches are live?
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