| The objections to DragenFly are not about what is best for the Chinese citizen. This is not the concern in the signed letter. It is also not related to any of the core concerns from commenters here, as far as I can tell. Yet somehow, many people are feeding the idea that the primary question is a cost-benefit analysis from the perspective of a person living in China. Of course, access to a pseudo-Google in China would be better for people there. It would be another option, and probably a tad closer to uncensored. The concerns are simply not about that. This is about setting a precedent of a company in a liberal democracy bending to the wishes of the government of a non-liberal-democracy. The concern is that this compromise is not only something that happens in China, but also something that happens next in UK and then in Germany, and then in the US. The concern is that any society with an "unfiltered" Google becomes a thing of the past. The concern is that the largest organization in the world controlling access to information begins "partnering" with governments and we step into an accelerated path towards disinformation. |