And I forgot to mention Walt Disney, Visa, Walgreen’s , Wells Fargo, Time Warner - I am taking this from an alphabetized list, and am skipping 80% of them. In other words, this is a vast, massive, huge, socially rooted problem which happened while “we were sleeping”. Some of us are just waking up to this now. Google is just one more, not unique except for its in-your-face campaign and its internet power.
It was the “Out & Equal” campaign beginning in about 2003 which waged a massive and hugely successful effort to sign companies and corporations on to its “Human Rights” platform
——I imagine for PR purposes the companies fell like Dominoes to the agenda, beginning with the giants Coca Cola and Best Buy, and on from there.
In this sense, Google is now at the tail end of something which began a decade ago.
Peter LeBarbara has been railing against the subterfuge of this campaign since its inception.