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What do Chinese internet users think of Google's 'Dragonfly' project?

Sundar Pichai describes Dragonfly as an 'internal effort' and said that the company currently had no plans to launch a search service in China

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Oiwan Lam | Global Voices
After deflecting questions from reporters for months, CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged in October 2018 Google’s plan to build “Dragonfly,” a censored search engine app that would serve Chinese users.

But on December 5, in a hearing before the US House Judiciary Committee, Pichai described the development of Dragonfly as an “internal effort” and said that the company currently had no plans to launch a search service in China.

When asked if he was committed to launching “a tool for surveillance and censorship in China”, Pichai declined to answer. He instead told legislators that he is committed to “providing users with

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