I don't want my email provider to also become a defense contract (with all the corruption that entails). Also, I seem to recall Google promising not to become

I don't want my email provider to also become a defense contract (with all the corruption that entails). Also, I seem to recall Google promising not to become a defense contractor when they purchased Boston Dynamics, exactly because there was a backlash against them over that possibility. I also remember they went back on that promise literally months later when they started testing AR stuff with the military. Anyway, saying "Google is only helping the US government kill fewer innocents" is like saying "IBM was only helping the Nazi classify the people who really deserved to die in the gas chambers." So yeah, if Google can help it (and it certainly can), it should stay the f-out of military contracts. It doesn't want to go that road. I for one would certainly make an effort to use Google's servers less and less if it does. I mean, how long will it be until it starts offering a firehose to our data to the U.S. government, especially in "times of need" or because it wants to win some other big contracts with the government? Google has certainly been guilty of doing that (look how much more aggressive it has become against alleged copyright infringements with no proof ever since it started selling music and movies).