[reaperducer]

Maybe because, according to your link, hundreds of people inside Google knew about this for over a year and said nothing?

It's one thing for a plan like this to be secret among a bunch of C-levels in a boardroom for a week. It's something else when HUNDREDS of people are involved, and a product is ready to deploy. That indicates a cultural problem within the company.

More evidence of that (again from your link):

"Company managers responded by swiftly trying to shut down employees’ access to any documents that contained information about the China censorship project, according to Google insiders who witnessed the backlash."