More importantly, a company of the size, scope and sophistication of Google trying to hide its fundamental redefinition of how people access the web, behind “it’s only a technical change” is unacceptable.
As if something with multiple downstream non-technical effects, is only a technical change
As if you can minimize and dismiss everyone’s fears and concerns as hollow, invalid and irrelevant by waving the magic wand of tis only a wee technical change, to be sure, to be sure
As if everyone’s protests and arguments against can be instantly hosed down, because aye, you guessed it laddie, it’s only a technical change
It’s almost as if the folks at Google think people are so stupid that not only do people not know what they’re talking about, but they’ll actually believe the lie and fall for that deception…
It’s almost as if Google was trying to gaslight the public about this…
If they end up groveling about this, I don’t think “in retrospect, we could have communicated this better” is going to cut it. This is a company the size, scope and sophistication of Google. This is not their first rodeo. They know exactly what they’re doing, and they mean to do it…