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August 16, 2018 08:04 pm GMT

Google's secret China censorship project shares a name with Sergey Brin's mega-yacht

Well, this is awkward. 

As Google employees continue to protest their company's no-longer secret plan to launch a censored version of its search engine in China, one little detail seems to have gone largely unremarked. Namely, that the project shares the name Dragonfly with a mega-yacht reportedly owned by Google co-founder Sergey Brin.

SEE ALSO: Google is developing a censored news app for China

That's right, Google executives gave their project designed to aid Chinese censorship the same name as a $80 million yacht. This fascinating detail was first picked up by journalist Ryan Gallagher (who initially broke the Google censorship story for The Intercept), who noted on his blog that this may be more than a random coincidence.  Read more...

More about Google, China, Censorship, Sergey Brin, and Dragonfly

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