# ithinco/i-am-chinese-the-dragonfly-must-go-on

A response to “We are Google employees, Google must drop DragonFly”

Repository: https://github.com/ithinco/i-am-chinese-the-dragonfly-must-go-on
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/i-am-chinese-the-dragonfly-must-go-on
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2019-01-24T14:02:01+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2833, "days_push": 2778, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1388, forks 31 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:35.225966+00:00)

## What it is
An open-letter essay written in response to Google employees' petition to drop Project Dragonfly, presenting a mainland Chinese perspective on Google's potential return to China. It is a written statement rather than usable software, published under an MIT license.

## Use cases
- read perspectives on Google Dragonfly controversy
- research Chinese search engine market share arguments
- find arguments about Baidu's ad practices
- cite a mainland China viewpoint on Google's 2010 exit
- study the 2018 Google Dragonfly debate

## When to choose
- you want a counterpoint essay from a mainland Chinese perspective on Dragonfly
- you are researching the 2018 Google Dragonfly controversy

## When to avoid
- you need actual software, a library, or a tool
- you need a neutral or comprehensive analysis of the topic

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: search-engine, documentation
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy
- platform: -
- tags: essay, opinion-piece, google-dragonfly, china, open-letter, not-software, search, web-server

## Member repositories
- ithinco/i-am-chinese-the-dragonfly-must-go-on (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:35.225966+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:39:46.714162+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ithinco/i-am-chinese-the-dragonfly-must-go-on (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:35.225966+00:00, sha 6de78f0fcf29)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.