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by iandioch 3165 days ago
A point worth making is that this is not Google, it is Sidewalk Labs. I believe (ot maybe would like to believe) that part of the reason Alphabet was created was to remove these conflicts of interest.
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> I believe (ot maybe would like to believe) that part of the reason Alphabet was created was to remove these conflicts of interest.

I think the more logical thing to believe is that it was created to remove the appearance of conflicts of interest for PR purposes and give them plausible deniability.