Google Struggles To Incorporate Employee Uproar Over Censorship Plans (Goog)

From The Intercept, August 3:

Google bosses were scrambling to comprise leaks as well as internal anger on Midweek subsequently the company’s confidential innovation to launch a censored version of its search engine inward PRC was revealed yesteryear The Intercept.

Just a few hundred of Google’s massive 88,000-strong workforce had been briefed on the projection prior to the revelations, which triggered a moving ridge of disquiet that spread through the cyberspace giant’s offices across the world.

Company managers responded yesteryear swiftly trying to close downward employees’ access to whatever documents that contained data nearly the PRC censorship project, according to Google insiders who witnessed the backlash.

“Everyone’s access to documents got turned off, as well as is beingness turned on [on a] document-by-document basis,” said 1 source. “There’s been sum radio quiet from leadership, which is making a lot of people upset as well as scared. … Our internal meme site as well as Google Plus are sum of talk, as well as people are a.n.g.r.y.”

On a message board forum for Google employees, 1 staff fellow member posted a link to The Intercept’s storey amongst a banknote maxim that they as well as 2 other members of their squad had been asked to operate on the Chinese censorship project, code-named Dragonfly.

“In my regard it is simply every bit bad every bit the leak mentions,” the employee wrote, adding that they had asked their managing director to live on removed from the projection because they were uncomfortable with it. Another fellow member of the team, the employee said, had decided to quit Google inward large share due to concerns nearly Dragonfly....MORE