Google is going through a slow-motion employee revolt and its cofounders are missing in action
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None of the thirteen current and former employees we spoke to know exactly why Page and Brin have receded into the background, though some speculate the billionaires simply don't want to be bothered with the growing criticism the company faces. A group of around ten employees drafted a petition calling on the company to forgo bidding on the lucrative project, which would move the CBP's IT infrastructure to the cloud. Any work with the CBP, the petition read, "would be trading its integrity for a bit of profit." Within the first day, over 1,200 employees had added their names in opposition.
. Employees tell us if they want to create change at Google — or at least uphold the values it once claimed to stand for — they know they will have to fight. Once upon a time, Google had a censored search engine in China. For Brin, who grew up in the Soviet Union, this presented a moral dilemma. But eight years later, Googlers encouraged by the exit from China would come to find out it was too good to be true. In August 2018,with a new, censored version of its search engine, known as Project Dragonfly.
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