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What I recently heard is that there are Google workers actively protesting against Google's involvement with projects connected to US DoD and US Army. What I am not hearing now is Google workers actively protesting against Google enabling censorship and oppression in China. I wonder whether this is an artifact of how news are reported (or how I am consuming new) or a genuine phenomenon? And if the latter, why is that?


It sounds like the source for the leak is an insider, although the author is very cautious to tiptoe around saying that.

> which is being planned by a handful of top executives and managers at the company

This quote also paints it as a very hush-hush project that isn't under development yet, so maybe not widespread internal knowledge?


> It sounds like the source for the leak is an insider

Possible. Then again, why public open protests in one case and a clandestine leak in another? Does it imply protesting some things would be tolerated much easier by the management than the other - like protesting working with US government is OK, but protesting working with Chinese government is risky?

> This quote also paints it as a very hush-hush project

Possible. Though not that hush-hush anymore, so let's see what happens now.




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