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I don't understand all these protests against defence contracts, China, CBP work. Guess what? These needs to be done by someone and if its not Google, it would be Palantir or Microsoft or Oracle or IBM. Google is not what used but at least they have better ethics than the most other companies who would jump to do whatever was asked of them. At least they could steer towards less evil. The era of no evil has ended, if there was one.

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They can still choose not to want to work on it. I'd imagine it slowly eats at you.

If they believe that they are the best engineering org in the world, which may be true, then whatever other company does it might do a worse job.

Google also has insane margins already - it's not really a convincing argument to anyone other than shareholders that Google needs more revenue whatever the cost.

I do get your side of the argument, however.

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