> I'll give Google that benefit of the doubt if they reinstate PcA immediately and apologise for their cock-up. Why? It's not as if no one in Google knew that

> I'll give Google that benefit of the doubt if they reinstate PcA immediately and apologise for their cock-up. Why? It's not as if no one in Google knew that this would happen. I don't think Grace Hopper's 'Better to ask forgiveness than permission' applies here. Google knew what they were doing when they instituted the rule and their behaviour suggests malice aforethought.