Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China

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Post by nedp » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:22 PM UTC

Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China
bbc.com

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Post by dcdevito » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC

Timing seems coincidental

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Post by i_am_nomad » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC

... for now. What would be far more reassuring would be a statement from Google that Project Dragonfly does not meet their ethical standards as a company.

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Post by powerslacker » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

Guess Peter Thiel scared 'em straight.

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Post by RenRav » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 2:00 PM UTC

I wonder if they will they put this on killedbygoogle.com?

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Post by phoe-krk » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 2:05 PM UTC

I am accepting bets on when the project will be terminated again in the future.

Bitcoin only. Tether only in high amounts.

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Post by chvid » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 2:07 PM UTC

Does anyone know the exact requirements set by China on google for them to enter the Chinese market? I suppose adherence to Chinese law but what exactly? Support of law enforcement, censorship of specific sites, personal data stored in China etc...

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Post by xxxpupugo » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 2:07 PM UTC

Who said China would allow Google to go back in the first place?

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Post by penagwin » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

RenRav wrote: post #5

I wonder if they will they put this on killedbygoogle.com?

While I guess you could say it was a project killed by google (supposedly - we'll see how long that lasts), killedbygoogle.com is mostly meant to shame google, and I don't really want to shame them for cancelling this project.

Re: Google's Project Dragonfly 'Terminated' in China

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Post by ryanmercer » Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 2:08 PM UTC

Probably because China has sufficiently copied/stolen it to not need Google any longer. It would be trivial to put government agents inside the local team and copy whatever they wanted, or coerce the local team to contribute everything they learned to the government.