Dragonfly: A open letter to Google, which is signed by nearly 300 of its employees, asks the company searchs to abandon her efforts to create the machine censorships Dragonfly that requires China to show Google in the country.
“Giving the Chinese government an easy accesson user data, as required by Chinese law, will make Google complicit in oppression and human rights abuses," reads the letter created by the Google Employees Against Dragonfly group.
Our opposition to Dragonfly is not about China: We are protesting for technologies that help the powerful oppress the vulnerable, wherever they may be.
The team said many of them work at Google because the company was "willing to put its values above its profits", and that they value Google's 2010 decision not to censor search results in China. However, they believe this is no longer the case.
Referring to change of the company's values, they recalled the Pentagon's AI project which is called Maven. This project did not proceed due to the reaction of thousands of company employees.
“We call on the leadership to commit to transparency, clear communication and genuine accountability. Google is too strong not to be responsible, ”the letter says.
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