>Here's where I think this will first come to a head: I believe the US government will at some point soon decide that any person born in mainland China is a security risk as far as working on anything national security related.
I was at Google during the Project Dragonfly revelations. My name is on this petition [0]. Internally, I expressed discomfort at cooperation with a state that (among other things) sets up covert Communist Party cells at American universities and requires Party members to write reports on other Chinese students' political speech and activities. After sharing this concern, a fellow Googler reached out and told me earnestly, "don't worry, none of us writing those reports took it seriously."
I worked at Google years ago when in response to what most believe was a Chinese state-sanctioned hack, Google decided to pull out of China. Many believed (myself included) that this pull out was largely driven by Sergey Brin. This all happened in the 1-2 years before I joined but I like many greatly respected that stance.
It was sad to see (from the outside this time) this principle get thrown aside with Dragonfly. What's worse is that Google will never be allowed to succeed in China so there was literally no point.
I was at Google during the Project Dragonfly revelations. My name is on this petition [0]. Internally, I expressed discomfort at cooperation with a state that (among other things) sets up covert Communist Party cells at American universities and requires Party members to write reports on other Chinese students' political speech and activities. After sharing this concern, a fellow Googler reached out and told me earnestly, "don't worry, none of us writing those reports took it seriously."
This was cold reassurance.
[0] https://medium.com/@googlersagainstdragonfly/we-are-google-e...