GOOGLE CENSORSHIP PLAN IS “NOT RIGHT” AND “STUPID,” SAYS FORMER GOOGLE HEAD OF FREE EXPRESSION
Friday, August 10, 2018 at 08:34PM GOOGLE’S FORMER HEAD of free expression issues in Asia has slammed the internet giant’s plan to launch a censored search engine in China, calling it a “stupid move” that would violate widely held human rights principles.
As The Intercept first reported last week, Google has been quietly developing a search platform for China that would remove content that China’s authoritarian government views as sensitive, such as information about political opponents, free speech, democracy, human rights, and peaceful protest. It would “blacklist sensitive queries” so that “no results will be shown” at all when people enter certain words or phrases, according to internal Google documents.




















































