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While rumors of dissent began immediately after Google’s plans for building a censored search engine for China leaked, the opposition is now clear, as hundreds of employees have signed a letter demanding transparency: specifically, over 1,400 “Googlers” want to know whether their talents are being used for morally or ethically questionable reasons. “Google employees need to know what we’re building.”
The internal activism presents another obstacle for Google’s potential return to China eight years after the company publicly withdrew from the country in protest of censorship and government hacking. China has the world’s largest internet audience but has frustrated American tech giants with content restrictions or outright blockages of services including Facebook and Instagram.
The internal activism presents another obstacle for Google’s potential return to China eight years after the company publicly withdrew from the country in protest of censorship and government hacking. China has the world’s largest internet audience but has frustrated American tech giants with content restrictions or outright blockages of services including Facebook and Instagram.