On: I’m Chinese, Google’s DragonFly Must Go On

[j2kun]

Dragonfly catalogues and indexes searches for dissident topics, linking them to the searcher's phone number. Literally a search engine for dissidents.

[traek → j2kun]

And that's different from Baidu in what way?

If it's not worse than the status quo, then it's not a negative impact of bringing Dragonfly to China.

[pas → traek]

How do you know that the number of atrocities committed in the future by the Chinese state is independent of Google being there or not?

Maybe people unaware of DragonFly will try riskier search phrases on Google than on Baidu.

And the problem gets especially bad if they find whatever they were looking for. As in this case the state has evidence on consuming "politically dangerous" material. (Not that they can't fake it otherwise.)

[darawk → j2kun]

Do you have reason to believe that exceeds their current capabilities?