> 'I’m pretty sure that no one who took a job at Google thought, "I’m going to work for a defense contractor."'

This person can't possibly speak for all other employees. There are many people who got interested in tech at least partly from exposure to popular scifi tropes such a weaponized robots.

That is the problem with this kind of reporting, they seek and only publish the people that confirm the editors assignments; the disgruntled ex-employee or the self promoting activist and they avoid putting things in perspective and show that these "movements" are minuscule in the scheme of things.