Does anyone recall if any of Google’s facilities have tax breaks? I am sure they are state only, but still.
If they have H1bs, rescind them n charge citizen taxes with penalties and interest straight to goolag.
They are getting tax breaks, including federal ones and colluding to prevent another 2016.
They get all kinds of breaks, grants, subsidies and lots of cash. They are a massive government contractor and partner. For these reasons, like Universities, they need to be respectful of the rights enshrined in the Constitution and not tinker with content results or censor speech of any kind, other than overtly criminal content, on their platforms.
I heard a snippet on the radio the other day, that government workers who use Google at work may be inadvertently sharing classified information with Google, which then gets shared to 3rd parties, advertisers, google partners and developers etc who have no clearance - not to mention potential hackers anywhere in the chain. It’s not just the overt stuff like using Gmail or Google Drive to store/share classified content, but the accumulation of or accumulated content that is classified. 2 or more pieces of unclassified information, when taken together, might be worthy of classification. Just searching out content from a government URL day after day, if tracked by anyone, would lead someone to know what that person was looking into and could tip off a foreign adversary.
Does anyone even know who Google’s employees are? For all we know they could be Chinese.