Google has shelved plans to build a filtered search engine for China, after internal company disputes and objections from employees, The Intercept reported Tuesday.

Rumors of a possible reentry to China made headlines when they were first reported in August. The company shuttered its China-based search engine in 2010 due to Beijing’s strict self-policing policies. But talk of the return this year provoked immediate backlash from employees, U.S. lawmakers, and Amnesty International, as Beijing requires all internet sites in the country to police themselves and remove sensitive content.

The Intercept reported that teams that had been working on the project — nicknamed Dragonfly — have now been given different assignments.

Word of the internal reshuffling echoes recent public comments from Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who told the U.S. Congress last week that “right now” the company had no plans to launch the search engine, though he declined to rule it out for the future.

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