Sorry for being a bit quiet, I have not been feeling great and have been doing a lot of research. here is what one of the things i researched boiled down to.
As we all know Google loves to censor viewpoints they disagree with.
1 Unfortunately for the tech giant they just cant censor as much as they want to without obviously breaking several multimillion-dollar government contracts. After almost a decade of not being able to operate in China, or getting millions of dollars from the Chinese people. As such, Google has decided to work on "project dragonfly,"
2 a new application and website that blocks several important websites and allows China to continue its DICTATORSHIP over their people. Remember that next time you want to trust Google. Your money is being used to support the oppression of ~1,415,589,623
3 people. Your data is being sold to help Google support a dictatorship.
The censored version of Google search engine in the form of a mobile app reportedly aims to "blacklist sensitive queries" and filter out all websites (news, human rights, democracy, religion) blocked by the Chinese government, including Wikipedia, BBC News, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Besides this, Google will also blacklist words like human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protests in Chinese of its search engine app.
I have spent several hours researching, trying to find a list of google/alphabet's (alphabet owns Google and almost a hundred companies) list of government contracts. I have looked at several government websites dedicated to USA contracts and spendings and it appears that they attempt to hide their contracts with Google. I have only found one or two department of defense (DOD) contracts with Google that did not, by any stretch of the word, cover the myriad of services google gives to the US DOD.
As I said before, Alphabet owns almost a hundred companies, some of these are legitimate and I feel several of them are fake. Please note that by fake I do not mean they are not real companies, I mean they are specifically owned/created to assist in the obfuscation of what Google/Alphabet is doing. Some supporting evidence is that the companies now have more contractors than they do employees
4 of which they dont technically have to say what they are doing. Because Alphabet doesn't technically have to say what their contractors work on, and they love their privacy (but not yours!), they just don't tell you what their higher level contractors work on. Because of this, Alphabet/Google can "work" on a project without ACTUALLY "working" on it.
Sauces:
1)
Robert Epstein. “The New Censorship.” Usnews, 22 June 2016, 9:00,
www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-06-22/google-is-the-worlds-biggest-censor-and-its-power-must-be-regulated.
2)
Mohit Kumar. “Google Secretly Planning to Launch a Censored Search Engine in China.” The Hacker News, The Hacker News, 1 Aug. 2018, thehackernews.com/2018/08/censored-google-search-china.html.
3)
“China Population (LIVE).” Worldometers,
www.worldometers.info/world-population/china-population.
4)
Mark Bergen, and Josh Eidelson. “Inside Google’s Shadow Workforce.” Bloomberg.com, Bloomberg, 25 July 2018,
www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-07-25/inside-google-s-shadow-workforce.
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