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Re:Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China... by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @07:58AM (#18228590)
'Self-serving biases' are well-studied psychological phenomena. [0]

We can expect that a Google employee working with China will be more favourable to the work, even accounting for factors like selection bias.

My money is on self-justification being at least a part of the explanation, but that doesn't preclude some amount of sucking-up to management as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias

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