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>Given how the industry (and country) has changed it's handling of sexual misconduct allegations in the last couple years, it's easy to find fault with the way they handled it, but Google's lawyers were operating in a very different context in 2014.

I think the height of metoo power was temporary. When #metoo fades out, reactions will regress to the mean (or a slightly heightened mean).

Blacks rioted all over LA for Rodney King. Then that died off, and police killed unarmed blacks here and there without any major reaction for almost 30 years -- until black lives matter erupted. No this has faded again.