> it also appears as though they are fully conscious of the prospect of social censure: >>We are working with you to make sure your careers are not affected by

> it also appears as though they are fully conscious of the prospect of social censure: >>We are working with you to make sure your careers are not affected by this. I'll tell you how Google is going to spin it (maybe it's true, maybe it's spin, but it's what they're going to say) - If you work on a big project at Google that never gets launched, it affects your ability to move up in the ranks. So he's saying that people working on this aren't going to be "penalized" (passed over for promotion) because the political climate made their project unable to launch. Without that assurance, even if you assume there were no ethical concerns with the project, smart employees would not sign up for it because of the risk of external events preventing its launch.