Opinion: Google can’t resist China’s 800 million internet users
Despite moral and ethical concerns, Google CEO Sundar Pichai defends company’s potential re-entry into China. At a conference in San Francisco on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai for the first time discussed the existence of censored search engine for the Chinese market. The news of the project was originally reported by The Intercept in August. Previously leaked details of the project, code-named “Project Dragonfly,” have focused on the how the tool would censor content deemed offensive by the Chinese government (e.g., queries about “human rights”). An internal memo generated by…
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