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Well the company is not a monolithic entity, it is after all a group of people. Is it unreasonable to expect them to change a particular policy, in this case supporting genocide , could be changed from within? After all it was decided to pursue by some execs, and it is jot that hard to withdrawfrom it. It is not the core business of Google. We are not talking about Googlers protesting about the Google Ads.

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> Well the company is not a monolithic entity, it is after all a group of people.

A group of people...in a clearly defined structure. In Google's case that structure is a hierarchy. The issue passed through this structure and a decision was made. Now even hierarchical companies often have some mechanism to make appeals based on ethics, safety, etc. but either this wasn't done or their appeals were rejected.

> After all it was decided to pursue by some execs, and it is jot that hard to withdrawfrom it

Mr Pichai was probably at the very least aware of a billion dollar contract I would guess. If they wanted to withdraw from it, they would have done so.

> It is not the core business of Google.

I think Google would like very much to succeed in the cloud. A billion dollar cloud contract will certainly help with that.

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