There is nothing more equal in it. It's outright criminal. The today's adtech is when you walk into a grocery store, get stuff for free, while in the meantime the store takes notes what car you drive, who you likely are, packages all this info and sells to whoever pays, including criminals.
Afaik, TeX is a Turing-complete language that can even read files from disk. Yet, it's only purpose is to render static text documents and nobody blames Knuth for inability to separate the presentation layer. The web is no longer a bunch of text documents. It's the first and only successful cross-platform solution. Moreover, it's still in the very infancy and in 10-20 years it will be the full-blown operation system layer on top of every platform. The problem of the web is that its sandbox has become leaky.
I believe that this is a part of a well funded campaign against Google by some of its rivals or enemies. Oracle? Regardless, whoever is implementing this attack, they're doing a fantastic job. Google's business is basically connecting Advertisers (wolves) with Users (sheep) and the most important part of this business is to keep this ecosystem stable. Someone's apparently found a way to destabilize this system: wolves are getting bigger and greedier, while sheep is dying out. The only solution here is to cut the population of wolves, but Google is still in denial and lies to itself that maybe the extinction can be stopped by formalizing the process of chasing sheep.
I think the today's adtech is more like video cams installed in everyone's house and squads of criminals that do targeted raids based on information obtained from those video cams. First people figured that such cameras exist. Then they started installing steel doors. Now they're removing those cameras.
The biggest barrier is that there is no money in honest business. In other words, people want to pay for useful content (e.g. wikipedia is still up and running), it's just what they want to pay is nowhere near multi-billion-dollar valuation that VCs are used to. Can Google Search, Maps, YouTube, Chrome, Android and so on exist without ads and tracking? Absolutely. It's just this business would become non-profit.
It's pretty clear that this is just a battle between the big tech and their enemies. However I don't think the government will support this attack: it needs the big tech as much as it needs its aircraft carriers and a petty dispute between two generals isn't a reason to sink half the ships.
It's not a paradox because the statement that the interview processes don't evaluate candidates is false. It's proven that this particular interview format has a very high correlation with the future candidate's performance.
All this is based on assumption that those "terrorists" exist and need a sophisticated a reliable banking system. A simpler theory is that "terrorists" are state actors who challenge each other to get something practical in return. State actors don't need this bitcoin stuff: they can just send golden bullions in a diplomatic airplane and this transaction will be completely untraceable.