>I’ve heard this argument repeated a lot, but it doesn’t really make sense. What legal responsibilities is Google avoiding that aren’t handled by the contractin

>I’ve heard this argument repeated a lot, but it doesn’t really make sense. What legal responsibilities is Google avoiding that aren’t handled by the contracting company? But that's precisely how it's supposed to work - there are things (legal issues, other things, whatever it may be) that Google doesn't want to deal with. The theory is that Google pays the contracting agency to deal with those issues so that Google doesn't have to be bothered with them.