It actually feels more like maybe Cornet just radicalized faster than the rest of the company. His reasons for quitting are that Google works with US ICE, that the AI 'ethics' researchers were fired and that Google makes a censored search engine for China. But those first two are both totally reasonable things for the company to have done. Gebru and her friend were both way out of line, and I don't recall anyone freaking out about having particular government agencies as customers when I worked there. Google Earth Pro for the longest time counted the CIA as a key customer, maybe it still does, so it's not like there wasn't grounds for objection.