Editing Google (section)

=== 2018 ===
In July 2018, [[Mozilla]] program manager Chris Peterson accused Google of intentionally slowing down YouTube performance on [[Firefox]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kan |first=Michael |date=July 25, 2018 |title=Mozilla Developer Claims Google Is Slowing YouTube on Firefox |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-developer-claims-google-is-slowing-youtube-on-firefox |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190813134744/https://www.pcmag.com/news/362696/mozilla-developer-claims-google-is-slowing-youtube-on-firefo |archive-date=August 13, 2019 |website=[[PCMag]]}}</ref><ref name="firefox">{{Cite web |last=Cimpanu |first=Catalin |title=Former Mozilla exec: Google has sabotaged Firefox for years |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190819235446/https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/ |archive-date=August 19, 2019 |access-date=August 13, 2019 |website=ZDNet |language=en}}</ref>

According to Ryan Gallagher of [[The Intercept]] in August 2018, Google was developing for the People's Republic of China a censored version of its search engine (known as [[Dragonfly (search engine)|Dragonfly]]) "that will blacklist websites and search terms about human rights, democracy, religion, and peaceful protest".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gallagher |first=Ryan |date=August 1, 2018 |title=Google Plans to Launch Censored Search Engine in China, Leaked Documents Reveal |work=The Intercept |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180801120009/https://theintercept.com/2018/08/01/google-china-search-engine-censorship/ |archive-date=August 1, 2018}}</ref> Google was grilled at a [[United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation|Senate committee]] hearing on the project one month later.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Disis |first=Jill |date=September 26, 2018 |title=Google grilled over 'Project Dragonfly' at Senate hearing on data privacy |work=[[CNN]] |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/26/technology/google-dragonfly-senate-hearing/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180926222719/https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/26/technology/google-dragonfly-senate-hearing/index.html |archive-date=September 26, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Ryan |date=September 26, 2018 |title=Former Google Scientist Tells Senate to Act Over Company's "Unethical and Unaccountable" China Censorship Plan |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/09/26/former-google-scientist-tells-senate-to-act-over-companys-unethical-and-unaccountable-china-censorship-plan/ |access-date=December 9, 2024 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref> The project was canceled in December following the backlash it garnered both externally and internally within the company.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Ryan |date=December 17, 2018 |title=Google's Secret China Project "Effectively Ended" After Internal Confrontation |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190321020856/https://theintercept.com/2018/12/17/google-china-censored-search-engine-2/ |archive-date=March 21, 2019 |access-date=December 17, 2018 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US |quote=Leaks about the plan and the extraordinary backlash that ensued both internally and externally appear to have forced company executives to shelve it at least in the short term, two sources familiar with the project said.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 17, 2019 |title=Google's Project Dragonfly 'terminated' in China |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49015516 |access-date=June 18, 2022 |website=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>