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> Some big event inside must have triggered this change in stance

I don't know what triggered the change in stance but this may have triggered the removal.

Citing 'Don't Be Evil' Motto, 3,000+ Google Employees Demand Company End Work on Pentagon Drone Project [0]

[0]https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/04/citing-dont-be-...

They changed to "Do the right thing" from "Don't be evil" back in 2015 long before the 3000+ employee protest against the Pentagon drone project. I doubt this is the event that triggered the change in stance.

You are right.

The objections to the project internally could have been brewing for years, though.

Years before the DoD project was invented and the contract proposed?

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