‘google’s seArch engine for chinA cUrbs liberty’

A few days ago, Google held its annual product launch event. On this occasion, they proclaimed: “delivering information is why we exist”. “But this isn’t entirely true, Google is working on a major project that would limit access to information for more than one billion people,” says Dorjee Tseten, Executive Director, Students for a Free Tibet. “Recent leaked documents revealed that Google is building a censored search engine platform for China,” Tseten told The Sunday Guardian.

“Under this project, codenamed Dragonfly, a version of Google’s search engine in China will censor websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, freedom, religion, and protest,” warns Tseten.