Jack Poulson, Google and the Surveillance State

Poulson resigned his Google gig in China over the plan to launch a censured version of Google’s search engine in China. In his letter of resignation he states that he quit, ‘due to my conviction that dissent is fundamental to functioning democracies.’ He objected to,  ‘our intent to capitulate to censorship and surveillance demands in exhange for access to the Chinese market.’

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