Google’s minister of misinformation Laszlo Bock explained it at TGIF as
1) Google did nothing wrong because 2) Outbound recruiting has no effect 3) So execs just spent a ton of time working out a complicated arrangement to prevent outbound recruiting
It amazed me that Google would brag about hiring “the smartest people” then feed them directly contradictory information and expect them to buy it, which shockingly many did. For all the typical criticism of Trump supporters being a misinformed cult coming from Googlers, I saw a ton of similarities in the logical brain turns off when dear leaders explain things.