[smhost]

"Language is not reality" is the problem at stake, because language is really how people and organizations think. Language structures the field of possible self-justifications, and it's the ruler against which behaviors are measured. But, like you said, the fact that monopoly-related language is prohibited doesn't change reality. All the prohibition does is that it stops the organization's (and regulators') ability to measure its behavior against possible self-justifications. It's a strange legal technology.

[robertlagrant]

> is really how people and organizations think. Language structures the field of possible self-justifications, and it's the ruler against which behaviors are measured

This works less well when employees are not taught from birth only the language Google's legal team want them to learn.