A coalition of human rights groups organized demonstrations in 10 different countries Friday against Google's plan to launch a censored Chinese search engine that would allow authorities to filter out certain words and phrases and link phone numbers to search queries. The Google-designed search engine, codenamed Dragonfly, has been the subject of an intense backlash from the White House, human rights activists and even Google's own employees. The coalition has set up a website encouraging users to push the Mountain View, Calif. company to cancel any potential Chinese search engine and they can also sign a petition against Dragonfly. In addition to Internet dissent from at least 1,000 employees, Google has been blasted by multiple human rights groups -- including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders. Still, some Google employees took issue with the new process.

Source: Fox News January 21, 2019 18:39 UTC