Google's planned Chinese search app comes under fire. Plus, censorship in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Bowing to Beijing? Google's Project Dragonfly
A few weeks back, we learned Google was working on something called Project Dragonfly, a new search engine for the Chinese market - one that would function in compliance with Beijing's strict rules on censorship. In an organisation that talks up transparency - it is ironic that only a handful of the company's employees knew about the project. When some of them caught wind of it - they leaked the details to an online news site, The Intercept.
Google has ventured into China before, in 2010. But back then it decided it couldn't live with the censorship rules. So it pulled out. This potential re-entry into China signals a major policy U-turn, involving one of the biggest tech companies on the planet and the world's largest market.
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