[yibberish]

what I find impressive is how the employees are critical and the company stays on course. the criticism from its employees somehow neutered/ignored.

I suppose a corporation is not a democracy but a private entity, so then, what are the employees? free citizens? who has more power the government -- which was supposed to guarantee that the citizen's voices would be heard, or the company?

how different is google from the usa government really?

[cmrdporcupine]

Yeah I can't honestly say that internal criticism altered much. Maybe just slowed it down at times. Or forced management into a deeper level of secrecy. Like, I'm sure some arm of Google is still doing all sorts of work in defense, just without most of its staff knowing. Despite the big uproar some years ago.