Google left China in 2010, due to the continuous demands of the Chinese government to censor much of the content offered by its search engine. But as the years have passed, the search giant is trying to figure out how to get back to befriend the government and it seems that for the moment it has already found the way.
As published by The Intercept, Google is working on a censored version of search to launch exclusively in China, an application that is under the Dragonfly project and that has been in development since last spring. This application will limit searches to exclude information not approved by the Chinese government, such as results related to sex or political dissent.
The application that in its different phases of development has received various names, such as Maotai and Longfei already has been shown to officials of some rank within the government and could see the light in the next 6 or 9 months. The documents to which this medium has had access, state that the application will filter the content of the black list, showing a disclaimer that "some results may have been eliminated due to legal requirements." In addition, the number of sources will be limited as well as the available topics, and according to these documents, neither the BBC nor Wikipedia will be accessible through this application.
Chinese government maintains strict control over the content that users with an Internet connection can access. The great Chinese firewall is responsible for blocking any content related to sex, freedom of expression, anti-government groups and generally any type of information that may affect the stability of citizens.
The anonymous source that has offered The Intercept the documents related to this new application, affirms that it is against large companies and governments collaborating with the oppression of its people and deeply wishes that transparency about what they do should be of interest. public.
