Senior Employee Resigns From Google Over China Censored Search Engine Plans

BY COLIN FREDERICSON

September 15, 2018 Updated: September 15, 2018

A senior research scientist at Google quit after news of a search engine project in China leaked to the media.

Jack Poulson, who worked for the research and machine intelligence department, ended his employment on Aug. 31, The Intercept reported.

An Aug. 1 story by The Intercept about Google’s plans to build a censored search engine in China caused an uproar at the company. Sources leaked news of the project, which was only known by a fraction of employees.

Poulson brought the matter up with his managers. He decided to resign by mid-August, seeing that Google would continue its plans.

He did not want to be involved in a company that would censor information at the request of Chinese Communist officials, simply to re-enter the Chinese market.

“Due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies, I am forced to resign in order to avoid contributing to, or profiting from, the erosion of protection for dissidents,” Poulson wrote in his resignation letter, obtained by The Intercept…

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