Resignations Begin After Google’s ‘Project Dragonfly’ Censorship Program Revealed


In the last few years, Google seems to have been acting against their motto, the simple maxim “don’t be evil.”

Persistent stories of their bias and election interference make it hard to believe that is their slogan at all. Now, the company’s own employees are jumping ship after learning about a secretive project in development: Project Dragonfly.

The project itself is an attempt by Google to enter the Chinese market by delivering a custom-made censorship engine to the Communist regime. The company has not had a presence in China for almost ten years.

This August, the lid was blown off the secret project, which only a few hundred knew about originally. Revelations included CEO Sundar Pichai meeting with a Chinese official as well as tech demonstrations of the program.

This program would give China the tech giant’s power and presence, while ensuring its citizens remain oppressed behind the Great Firewall.

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Recent leaks from Google have shown that the company may have acted to influence voters in United States elections through their search engine, so it’s not hard to imagine China seeing great potential in this power.

While this sounds horrific to Americans who value a free and open election, it reads like an advertisement to the oppressive Chinese regime.

The Chinese government is no friend to freedom of speech. Crackdowns are frequent, and even searches for certain things are crimes against the communist government. Project Dragonfly would put Google’s name on that sort of censorship.

After being revealed, the program sparked a major backlash.

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Senior Google scientist Jack Poulson brought his reservations about the program to management. After unproductive talks with leadership, Poulson left the company on August 31.

Six others have also left, citing a lack of transparency.

The leak of Dragonfly and the resulting high-profile exit of a senior researcher come at a time when Google is already weathering a political storm over questions about bias.

Even President Donald Trump is weighing in, alleging that Google is skewing the search results of anyone who looks up news about him.

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Other conservatives have also complained, coming forward over an alleged bias against right-leaning Americans.

Google seems to be doing little to calm lawmakers and conservative Americans. Instead, one of their most famous incidents in the midst of the recent scandals has been their absence at a Senate intelligence committee. Facebook and Twitter both had representatives present at the meeting.

According to the leak, Project Dragonfly could launch in as soon as six months.

Is a product like this in the works for the American market? It’s terrifying to think of what Google could accomplish if they actively began to tamper with search results.

Until then, we’re left to watch them censor in China.

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WATCH: Far-Left Activists Accost Cruz Family At Restaurant

Far-left activists harassed Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and his wife Heidi out of a restaurant in Washington, D.C. on Monday night, according to a video posted by an Antifa Twitter account.
The activists repeatedly screamed "We believe survivors!" in the restaurant, disrupting the business and its customers, and forcing the Cruz family to leave.
At one point, one of the protesters told Cruz that his Democratic challenger, Beto O’Rourke, was "way hotter" than him.

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We’re monsters to them


I finally got it. After the election of President Trump, I’ve been growing ever more confused about the lack of reason from the Democrats, trending into outright craziness. Marching with vagina hats? Claiming the “Russians did it”? Beating Trump supporters with bike locks?


Then came the allegations of sexual abuse by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, assertions so completely ridiculous that a middle-school child could shoot them down. An assault where the victim doesn’t remember the day, the place, or who was there, except for four people who have all come forward to testify, under penalty of perjury, that there was no party, they were not involved and have no idea what she’s talking about. Then another assault claim where the victim wasn’t sure about the events and no one witnessed it.



Yet I have friends who are Democrats who believe these women, and are twisting themselves into pretzels to claim that these events must have happened exactly as the women described.


So why is this? Recently my husband and I went out for breakfast, and I finally understood.


I imagined that in the lovely restaurant in which we were seated, a man in full Nazi regalia walked in. Let’s say he was wearing the whole uniform, including an armband with a swastika, and polished jackboots.


Instantly, I would know that this man is evil. His ideology is that of genocide and war. If a girl walked up to me, pointed at him, and claimed rape, I would believe her. Of course, she’s right and he’s a rapist, because look at him! He’s a monster. I wouldn’t require proof. I wouldn’t need it.


And now I have my answer.


The Democrats have demonized Republicans to such an extent that they believe that we are not human. We’re monsters, and we deserve whatever they can do to us.


And this, by the way, is exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews.


Bonnie Ramthun is a Colorado mom, wife, and author. She is an occasional contributor to PJMedia. You can find her work at her Amazon author page here.


I finally got it. After the election of President Trump, I’ve been growing ever more confused about the lack of reason from the Democrats, trending into outright craziness. Marching with vagina hats? Claiming the “Russians did it”? Beating Trump supporters with bike locks?


Then came the allegations of sexual abuse by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, assertions so completely ridiculous that a middle-school child could shoot them down. An assault where the victim doesn’t remember the day, the place, or who was there, except for four people who have all come forward to testify, under penalty of perjury, that there was no party, they were not involved and have no idea what she’s talking about. Then another assault claim where the victim wasn’t sure about the events and no one witnessed it.


Yet I have friends who are Democrats who believe these women, and are twisting themselves into pretzels to claim that these events must have happened exactly as the women described.


So why is this? Recently my husband and I went out for breakfast, and I finally understood.


I imagined that in the lovely restaurant in which we were seated, a man in full Nazi regalia walked in. Let’s say he was wearing the whole uniform, including an armband with a swastika, and polished jackboots.


Instantly, I would know that this man is evil. His ideology is that of genocide and war. If a girl walked up to me, pointed at him, and claimed rape, I would believe her. Of course, she’s right and he’s a rapist, because look at him! He’s a monster. I wouldn’t require proof. I wouldn’t need it.


And now I have my answer.


The Democrats have demonized Republicans to such an extent that they believe that we are not human. We’re monsters, and we deserve whatever they can do to us.


And this, by the way, is exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews.


Bonnie Ramthun is a Colorado mom, wife, and author. She is an occasional contributor to PJMedia. You can find her work at her Amazon author page here.




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Democrats make Joe McCarthy look like an amateur


Joe McCarthy was a U.S. senator who relentlessly pursued communists in the U.S. government.  But because liberals have always been more enthused about communism than freedom, the Democrat establishment lied McCarthy into oblivion.


As a result of the liberal smear campaign, McCarthy is memorialized by the term “McCarthyism,” which is defined as “the use of tactics involving personal attacks on individuals by means of widely publicized indiscriminate allegations especially on the basis of unsubstantiated charges; broadly: defamation of character or reputation through such tactics.”



That’s right: the term Democrats developed to smear McCarthy because he was hunting traitors in the U.S. government is a perfect description of the Democrats’ and their propaganda arm, the fake news media, treatment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.


They couldn’t find anything in his judicial record to justify denying him a seat on the Supreme Court, so Democrats have turned to unsubstantiated, and in fact repudiated, charges of ancient personal impropriety, which these same Democrats have widely publicized.


Democrats knew that Christine Blasey Ford’s claims about Kavanaugh assaulting her were bogus, which is why they waited until the last minute to reveal them.  In fact, the only thing they’ve been right about so far is that Ford isn’t credible.  Even though she made the most ambiguous, uncheckable claims possible within a week of her going public, every person who she said could confirm her account was on record, under threat of imprisonment, of saying there was no truth to her claim.  Even her lifelong friend, a female Democrat who doesn’t like Kavanaugh being on the Supreme Court, has said she was never at a party with Ford and Kavanaugh, even though Ford said she was.


If the Democrats hadn’t hidden Ford’s claim, the whole issue would have been resolved before the hearings began.


The latest claim by Deborah Ramirez is even less credible than Ford’s.  Even the NYT, for whom, usually, any anti-Trump rumor is fit to print, wouldn’t run the story because it lacked any credibility.  Even Ms. Ramirez said that she wasn’t sure that it was Kavanaugh until she spent six days with a Democrat activist lawyer.  The witnesses she said would corroborate her account said she was wrong.  She called former classmates up recently to ask about the event and told them she wasn’t sure who exposed himself to her.


It turns out that Ramirez is a Democrat activist.  As the coup de grâce, one of her best friends at the time, who shared secrets with her, says Ramirez never mentioned the incident.


Meanwhile the porn lawyer Michael Avenatti claims to have a woman who says Kavanaugh and his friend Judge used to drug and gang-rape women.  We know that Avenatti is a liar and a tax cheat.  He has presented not a single detail, but we’re supposed to believe that by day Kavanaugh was the fantastic gentleman commended by 65 women, but by night, he organized gang-rapes of women.  Right.


There’s more evidence that the fake news media are trying to tip the scales.  We all know how irritating it is when some reporter refers to a person caught in the act of some horrible crime as the “alleged” perpetrator.  We’re all for presumption of innocence, but when you have video footage of someone shooting an unarmed cop, we think leaving the “alleged” out is okay.  But when you read stories about Kavanaugh in the fake news media, are you seeing a significant usage of the word “alleged”?  In fact, Democrats are arguing that the mere fact that Kavanaugh has been accused means we can drop the “alleged” and presume he’s guilty.


Chuck Schumer and the rest of the neo-fascist Democrats are engaging in true McCarthyism.


They can’t give any reason why Kavanaugh wouldn’t be a good judge or how any of his past rulings are inconsistent with the law as written, so they’re saying that because random Democrat activist women are suddenly remembering after decades of silence allegedly horrible things that Kavanaugh did, we must reject him, even though in both cases the people the “victim” has said would back up their claims have in fact said the “victim” is wrong.


The American people generally don’t like liars, and they especially don’t like liars trying to smear innocent people.


You can read more of Tom’s rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.


Joe McCarthy was a U.S. senator who relentlessly pursued communists in the U.S. government.  But because liberals have always been more enthused about communism than freedom, the Democrat establishment lied McCarthy into oblivion.


As a result of the liberal smear campaign, McCarthy is memorialized by the term “McCarthyism,” which is defined as “the use of tactics involving personal attacks on individuals by means of widely publicized indiscriminate allegations especially on the basis of unsubstantiated charges; broadly: defamation of character or reputation through such tactics.”


That’s right: the term Democrats developed to smear McCarthy because he was hunting traitors in the U.S. government is a perfect description of the Democrats’ and their propaganda arm, the fake news media, treatment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh.


They couldn’t find anything in his judicial record to justify denying him a seat on the Supreme Court, so Democrats have turned to unsubstantiated, and in fact repudiated, charges of ancient personal impropriety, which these same Democrats have widely publicized.


Democrats knew that Christine Blasey Ford’s claims about Kavanaugh assaulting her were bogus, which is why they waited until the last minute to reveal them.  In fact, the only thing they’ve been right about so far is that Ford isn’t credible.  Even though she made the most ambiguous, uncheckable claims possible within a week of her going public, every person who she said could confirm her account was on record, under threat of imprisonment, of saying there was no truth to her claim.  Even her lifelong friend, a female Democrat who doesn’t like Kavanaugh being on the Supreme Court, has said she was never at a party with Ford and Kavanaugh, even though Ford said she was.


If the Democrats hadn’t hidden Ford’s claim, the whole issue would have been resolved before the hearings began.


The latest claim by Deborah Ramirez is even less credible than Ford’s.  Even the NYT, for whom, usually, any anti-Trump rumor is fit to print, wouldn’t run the story because it lacked any credibility.  Even Ms. Ramirez said that she wasn’t sure that it was Kavanaugh until she spent six days with a Democrat activist lawyer.  The witnesses she said would corroborate her account said she was wrong.  She called former classmates up recently to ask about the event and told them she wasn’t sure who exposed himself to her.


It turns out that Ramirez is a Democrat activist.  As the coup de grâce, one of her best friends at the time, who shared secrets with her, says Ramirez never mentioned the incident.


Meanwhile the porn lawyer Michael Avenatti claims to have a woman who says Kavanaugh and his friend Judge used to drug and gang-rape women.  We know that Avenatti is a liar and a tax cheat.  He has presented not a single detail, but we’re supposed to believe that by day Kavanaugh was the fantastic gentleman commended by 65 women, but by night, he organized gang-rapes of women.  Right.


There’s more evidence that the fake news media are trying to tip the scales.  We all know how irritating it is when some reporter refers to a person caught in the act of some horrible crime as the “alleged” perpetrator.  We’re all for presumption of innocence, but when you have video footage of someone shooting an unarmed cop, we think leaving the “alleged” out is okay.  But when you read stories about Kavanaugh in the fake news media, are you seeing a significant usage of the word “alleged”?  In fact, Democrats are arguing that the mere fact that Kavanaugh has been accused means we can drop the “alleged” and presume he’s guilty.


Chuck Schumer and the rest of the neo-fascist Democrats are engaging in true McCarthyism.


They can’t give any reason why Kavanaugh wouldn’t be a good judge or how any of his past rulings are inconsistent with the law as written, so they’re saying that because random Democrat activist women are suddenly remembering after decades of silence allegedly horrible things that Kavanaugh did, we must reject him, even though in both cases the people the “victim” has said would back up their claims have in fact said the “victim” is wrong.


The American people generally don’t like liars, and they especially don’t like liars trying to smear innocent people.


You can read more of Tom’s rants at his blog, Conversations about the obvious, and feel free to follow him on Twitter.




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