What makes you think the majority of Google employees had any idea this was going on? We have the testimony of several Google employees who comment here on Hack

What makes you think the majority of Google employees had any idea this was going on? We have the testimony of several Google employees who comment here on Hacker News that there was no indication any of this was happening. Then there's the news report that corroborates this, implying not even the leaders of the companies had any idea. I mean, again, they could all be lying...but Occam's Razor and all that.