1. What is Dragonfly? List some of the search terms Google will ban at the Chinese Communist government’s behest.

2. What are Google performance reviews? How are they conducted?

3. How do performance reviews for employees working on Dragonfly differ from usual company procedure? Be specific.

4. a) What did Google CEO Sundar Pichai initially tell employees when their censored search engine for China was first exposed in August?
b) What did Google do late last year following an outpouring of criticism about the censored search engine?
c) For what reason do Google employees believe executives are deceiving them?
d) How did executives respond to these accusations?

5. From paragraphs 11-12:

• Google previously launched a search engine in China in 2006, but pulled out of the country in 2010, citing concerns about Chinese government interference.
• At that time, Google co-founder Sergey Brin said the decision to stop operating search in the country was principally about “opposing censorship and speaking out for the freedom of political dissent.”
• Dragonfly represents a dramatic reversal of that position.
• The search engine was designed to comply with strict censorship rules imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party regime, enabling surveillance of people’s searches while also blocking thousands of terms, such as “Nobel prize,” “human rights,” and “student protest.”

What is your initial reaction to this?

6. Google controls which information users can see and can't see around the world. Some might argue that that is not true, people have a choice of what search engine to use. But realistically, the vast majority of us google everything.
What, if anything, can/should be done about Google?

7. Google’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil” but they changed it to "Do the right thing" in 2015. Should people trust Google to not be evil and to do the right thing? Explain your answer.