Ive been telling people, writing to people and complaining about google's increased censorship for years. The lack of transparency to webmasters and google search users is just as damaging as hiding content from people when the company spent years trying to develop trust, now many people believe what they find on google is truth - and they do not know how much of the internet has been filtered out, and ranked down by small groups of people with non-transparent agendas and algorithms.

For this reason is does not surprise me that this kind of thing was in the works and the ramifications to society being degraded in the name of big profits.

I wrote about some of these issues in comments here recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18546828

and if people started watching the pbs docu thing about the 2018 dilema of facebooks power and failures - and you started to watch part two at 43:11 till 45:30 ( https://www.pbs.org/video/the-facebook-dilemma-part-two-iev1... )- thinking it's about google - that sums way part of my feelings watching these things unfold over time on this side of the pond.

I am glad to see some people at google speaking outside the plex finally. These decisions have global consequences, and the culture of don't tell them so they can't use it against us, or steal our secret sauce, that omerta is part of the toxic culture that has created the faang monstrosities that are upon us today as they are.

To those that have chosen to speak out, thank you. I hope more open to the discussions occur.