Any perspective is usually purely idealistic and strongly influenced by the environment you were educated in. We tend to consider the theoretical aspects of dem

Any perspective is usually purely idealistic and strongly influenced by the environment you were educated in. We tend to consider the theoretical aspects of democracy as the golden standard but ignore the practicalities of the implementation. So as we take the idealistic approach, any hacking campaign lead by Western intelligence agencies or any initiative to weaken encryption are for most people "pure" in intentions, they're anti-terrorism, they're fighting pedophiles. But any enemy doing the same, China, Russia, NK, Iran, etc. are engaging in terrorism, authoritarianism. It's always very black and white because that's how people are educated. The absolutely overwhelming majority of people are able to go about their lives every day never questioning how they can hold such dissonant opinions in their head simply because they were told "it's ok when we do it, it's bad when they do it". And as you can see even the "democratic" approach has a chilling effect. The suggestion most people take away from a cursory parsing of the title or article is that Google acted irresponsibly. Imagine the day this point of view becomes prevalent fueled by the typical political campaign populism. Imagine people and companies being put off from touching the topic out of fear that they're branded irresponsible and unwittingly hindering anti-terrorism efforts because they're disclosing problems of general interest.