I think we are far too afraid of upsetting tech employees to admit that it's exactly what it is. They apply somewhere near a double-digit-percentage tax to most businesses globally. They are under investigation for illegal practices in nearly every jurisdiction that has laws against certain business practices, and now their CEO has literally been caught specifically requesting to take business conversations off the record so they can't be used as evidence against them in a court of law. It's been a few years since people talked about it, but how much money were they hiding offshore in a island nation bank account again?

Like... I'm hard pressed to find a scenario where Google has not appeared to be a bunch of outright gangsters.

If we could put executives from Volkswagen in prison for cooking the books on some environmental regulations, shuttering Google and arresting the entire C-suite should be way more obvious.

They absolutely belong in prison, I just don't think it should stop with the C suite.

Search for “crack addled flea” and find the first message. I’m definitely not a Google fan