I'll tell ya, having watched the MS antitrust stuff happen vs. this, Google has a hell of a lot more apologists participating in posts like this one than Microsoft had employees at the time.
Google learned a lot from prior big antitrust cases, clearly.
Having worked at MS post anti trust, we weren't allowed to say things like "murder the competition", but I just assumed that was because they didn't want us going to jail for attempted homicide when we were just using hyperbole.
well, believe it or not, hyperbole can't put you in jail for long, of at all. 1st Amendment.
if hate speech is protected (it is) then hyperbole is protected (it is).
you weren't allowed to say those things because you needed to change your corporate culture. changing how you speak at work is very effective at that.
Google somehow believe that if they also dodge the phrases of the past that they will escape the scrutiny of the past, implying that they think government regulators are stupid and won't be able to see what is really happening.
Google have been very, very foolish in thinking in that way.
Wait. How is Microsoft banning phrases to change corporate culture but google banning phrases isn’t to change corporate culture? Or is google just consider evil in intent by default while Microsoft isn’t?
I work at Google and the comments like the one OP had is so deeply confusing to me?
If the judicial system finds that there was monopolistic behavior, then they should deal with it. People apologizing that "oh poor companies have a hard time with words" are wild to me.
Google learned a lot from prior big antitrust cases, clearly.