further to this because I forgot to mention and it’s important: goog have been dismayingly effective at stifling internal criticism and organizing lately to a remarkable degree, which is big black mark imo
Even Microsoft which has like eight million legacy defence contracts they’ll never let go of seemingly hasn’t stonewalled debate to that extent, though I think that’s more generational than anything else – Microsoft has always been both more sclerotic and more obsequious toward younger people in a way that accidentally gives them a louder voice, whereas google seems like it’s still pretty firmly controlled by a Gen X libertarian mindset.