I cannot believe people are defending Google and attacking the researcher. The argument goes, 1) he's a researcher for a think tank, so he's pushing an agenda

I cannot believe people are defending Google and attacking the researcher. The argument goes, 1) he's a researcher for a think tank, so he's pushing an agenda and not trustworthy. 2) Google made a good business decision by cutting funding for research that goes against their agenda. So, for-profit enterprises can push agendas, but not-for-profit enterprises and the individuals who staff them cannot, because agenda-pushing would undermine the purity of their research. That's obviously a double standard, and one that favors the powerful over the weak. Silicon Valley has become morally repugnant, and Google is evil. I'm on the side of the little guy.