Unfortunately any large company that wants to grow will have to do things that some people, somewhere might consider evil. I suspect in this forum, no one would think anything of Google driving a hard bargain with the local government in Lenoir, North Carolina regarding a new datacenter. That's just business and Google's playing fair. Not everyone agrees with that, though.

But I agree a lot of the extra scrutiny comes from the chance to point a finger and scream "hypocrisy!"