Google employee resigns over “Project Dragonfly” A censored search engine being designed for China that enables state surveillance.

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by mixsomnia

Jack poulson talks about why he resigned from google due to ethical concerns

Here is his resignation letter:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4905801-Jack-Poulson-Google-resignation-letter-20-Aug-2018.html

And here is a transcript Q/A where he goes into detail about it.

https://irlpodcast.org/season5/episode4/?utm_source=desktop-snippet&utm_medium=snippet&utm_campaign=IRLS5&utm_term=12243&utm_content=rel_esr

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Over 700 google employee’s were against the project but only one left publicly.

Project Dragonfly: https://studybreaks.com/tvfilm/what-is-googles-project-dragonfly-and-why-is-it-so-concerning/

I also just started looking into project maven ,where about a dozen google employee’s quit and over 3000 signed a petition in protest, It would turn google into a defense contractor of sorts.