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Who cares about Google? What Alphabet does, matters. A new subsidiary with strict confidentiality? They can play with optimizing company structure depending on the area of business as they like.

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The contract in question was, in fact, with a totally separate company ("ECS Federal") with confidentiality agreements. The Google execs, in contemporaneous emails, knew from the beginning that it would be opposed and did their utmost to conceal it while acknowledging it would probably leak and suggesting they try to spin it in advance.

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-dro...

That doesn't help when Googlers intend on sabotaging Google when Alphabet goes against progressive supremacist Googler ethos. You cannot separate them through secrecy or through force.

The fate of Google is the fate of Alphabet.

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