Why? Well, simply put, two reasons:
- Google, along with all the other media companies, has a target audience that includes all races & genders around the globe ie a 7 billion person strong market. If they were to acknowledge IQ and other related race/gender traits/characteristics/differences, then they could literally lose a majority of this market.
- Two, perhaps most importantly, is that media is discretionary. It appeals to various social aspects, all of which are dominated by women and romantics. If they are offended, which is very easy to do, then they can easily go somewhere else. Of course, conservatives can as well, which is why the game these companies play is to appease both sides.
Consider Boeing or Airbus; is there any uproar that the engineers are 99% men? No, because even a social justice warrior is smart enough to know that when your very life is at stake, you better damn well favor merit & ability. Which means, QED, "fvcking while males."
I don't have any sympathy for the terminated employee. If you're too dumb to not understand the game, then you're probably too dumb to be of any use. Consider how many extra people (10,000?) are employed as a result of Google grabbing extra market share while playing these games? Consider if they came out and admitted gender & race based differences. Presto, potentially millions of users gone. Of course, now that the cat is out of the bag, they are getting the reciprocal action, which is millions of users are leaving do to the lying & oppression.
The bigger issue is that this episode probably marks the top for Google. The technology they employ is now fairly generic. There are search engines that use the but strip header/ad info, there's browsers with built in ad blockers, etc. For those who check them out (eg StartPage, Brave, etc) you'll be amazed at how much quicker they are. That's because they're not processes thousands of data points every time you click on the mouse.
The only difference I have with your statement is that I do have some sympathy with the fired engineer. He naively thought that there would be no consequence for speaking freely, and, even worse, that his work would have some impact at Google. Life lessons are sometimes hard.