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There are few occupations in which a man can be more innocently employed than the pursuit of devising asynchronous network protocols?

Which ethics are you talking about?

I think it's a fair question

It would be interesting to know what Cerf, Thompson, etc. saw in Google. Why was it more appealing than, for example, academia

The ethics question might be something like: Is advertising really the highest and best use for a public computer network; does it justify using the network for data collection and mass surveillance

I think, in many ways, google is the only real successor to the research labs (Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, etc.) of the 20th century. If they had somewhere else to go, I don't doubt they'd go there

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