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thwower234234··on Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit
> Never mind his new employer has built one of the most polarizing and divisive platforms in the history of humankind.

Pretty much all the FAANGs operate in pretty much the same way. Google just has a very benign image, even while they ban people left, right and center on Youtube, censor search results, and delete adsense accounts of inconvenient news orgs.

It's a bit ironic that I've to now use Yandex, from "repressive" Russia no less, in order to access sites and information not approved by the Ministry of Truth in the "freedom-loving" lands of the yee United States.

If you know your "banned, unapproved, history" (the kind even Chomsky would admonish you for), you'd also know this is not new for either the US, or its predecessor, the British Empire.

Hypocrisy, you tempt us, and protect us so.