[spicyusername]

    > Unfortunately, the proposal came from a Google employee. Google has a reputation of taking user data and feeding it into piles of linear algebra in order to skew its search results to match your existing biases or whatever the hell else people do with linear algebra.

Right. We live in an age now where gigantic, powerful, organizations are ruining everything to privilege a fantastically small few. They have consistently shown a complete lack of any moral compass and a willingness to do absolutely anything necessary to increase their power or continue to enrich themselves.

If we lived in any other age, people might tolerate this, but we don't, and therefore everyone is well within their right to mutiny, regardless of how interesting a technical solution this is.