I didn't realize they had any protection in the first place. That certainly explains a lot. Google has a small but extremely vocal (some would say "unhinged")

I didn't realize they had any protection in the first place. That certainly explains a lot. Google has a small but extremely vocal (some would say "unhinged") minority of folks who mostly just do activism on the internal G+ and little else. You can even find their names online from the various leaks if you'd like to follow their own proposed practice of blacklisting people they disagree with. It was always a mystery to me how they manage to stick around for so long.