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Senior Google Scientist Quits Over Plans for Censored China Web Search

BY PETR SVAB

September 16, 2018 Updated: September 16, 2018

A senior researcher has quit his job at Google in protest over the company’s leaked plans to create a censored web search app for China, codenamed “Dragonfly.”

Jack Poulson, 32, who worked for the research and machine-intelligence department, left Google on Aug. 31 after discussing his concerns with his bosses for several weeks. He felt that resigning was his “ethical responsibility” to protest “the forfeiture of our public human-rights commitments,” he told The Intercept.

The Chinese communist regime runs the world’s most sophisticated system of internet censorship and requires foreign companies to censor topics it deems “sensitive,” such as democracy, human rights, and persecution of groups like Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, human rights activists, and others. Companies are also forced to share their data stored in China with the regime.

“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.

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When a senior scientist quits Google because of ethical reasons with googles policies … we might want to note that

>>3052163

It would appear your a bit of a fool. Anyone can post on these boards. You apparently missed that. See, even your crazy twisted miss characterization of these boards is allowed to post here. See how that works.

Your crazy and you post. But no one else who post's here is crazy like you. So just because your crazy and twisted…doesn't mean everyone else who posts here is twisted and crazy.

So rant as much as you want. Look like a crazy ranting fool as much as you want. But no one else is going to turn into a crazy fool like you and start ranting.

>>3052275

Nice post Anon…best laugh I've had all day. Thanks:)

>>3052286

Ticket it and I'll post it…great meme!

>>3052342

Ummm did it go over your head that you can't threaten something that is invisible. Anon's can't be seen, can't be identified.

Kind of hard to do anything to something that is more like air. Can't see, can't contain it, can't even hear it breathe.

Out on a weekend pass from the institution… are ya?

>>3052512

Well…they can put as many images behind bars as they want I guess. But then that would make them as crazy as you.

Get off the drugs or sauce or whatever it is your smoking. Come back after rehab.

Interdasting

Twitter Account Appears With Chinese Translations of Trump’s Tweets, Attracting the Attention of Mainland Chinese

BY EPOCH TIMES STAFF

September 16, 2018 Updated: September 16, 2018

A social media account that translates U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweets into Chinese recently appeared on Twitter. The account profile says: “Follow U.S. President Trump’s Twitter and get timely updates so that Chinese all around the world can understand Trump’s concepts of governance!” The account, which opened in September, attracted more than 13,000 followers within 3 days. At the time of writing, there are over 18,000 followers.

Although this account is not official, the translations are styled very similarly to Trump’s choice of words. Many Chinese netizens mistakenly thought that Trump had launched a Chinese Twitter account. Others guessed that this account was perhaps opened by Chinese people who support Trump.

Many Chinese reacted to China-related tweets, such as this one initially posted by Trump on Sept. 13: “The Wall Street Journal has it wrong, we are under no pressure to make a deal with China, they are under pressure to make a deal with us. Our markets are surging, theirs are collapsing. We will soon be taking in Billions in Tariffs & making products at home. If we meet, we meet?”

Many retweeted the Chinese translation of Trump’s tweet. Some replied, “President, you can do it!” “Keep up the good work!”

China commentator Wei Pu mentioned recently in an interview with Radio Free Asia that many elite Chinese intellectuals are optimistic about Trump and “treat him as the savior of the United States.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/twitter-account-appears-with-chinese-translations-of-trumps-tweets-attracting-the-attention-of-mainland-chinese_2662687.html