Last month, Google employees signed a petition calling on the company’s management to cancel work on the controversial Dragonfly project – Google’s search engine for China – explaining that such technology helps to oppress freedoms and violates human rights.
Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, claimed that the work that tech giant Google is implementing in China indirectly assists the Chinese military.
Google publicly exited the Chinese market in 2010, citing concerns about the repression of freedom of expression online, however, the company has been planning to re-enter that market by launching Dragonfly.