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Google wants to report impact on censorship of Chinese dictatorial regime

The proposal of these shareholders was rejected by the majority at the annual General Assembly held on Wednesday in California, and the petition referred to the "Flying Dragon Project," a censored search engine, to re-operate in China , where it has not been present since 2010.
"The Flying Dragon will be able to increase control of the Chinese Government over citizens, allowing it to track searches of individuals on Google," reads the motion tabled by the investor group, which was not supported by majority shareholders.
After the uproar over the past year caused by the publicly released information on this project, Google announced that it has canceled the project, but recently published information by the press indicates that the US group did not abandon the possibility of a possible return to China.
In the rejection response to the report on the impact on human rights, majority shareholders have assured that there are no current plans to bring "Google back to China," nor is any work being done on this matter.
Google and related tools have been blocked since 2010 when the US company and the Chinese government failed to agree on how the search engine should operate in the country.
But according to US media, Google plans to relaunch a search engine in China, with censored results, to meet the demands of the authorities.
The revelation prompted brand CEO Sundar Pichai to testify before the US Congress, where he denied the technology giant plans to operate in China, and said the company supports "freedom of expression and human rights."
Beijing's censorship of cyberspace results in the blocking of several foreign portals and some services of "giants" in the industry, such as Facebook, Google or Twitter.
Considered until a few years ago the most free space in China, the Internet has been subject to increasing censorship, following the passage of a security law in cyberspace last summer.
The government has ordered those responsible for online content to provide information that is "at the service of socialism and the correct guidance of public opinion". Lusa Agency