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Unless you are talking about some social blunder they have done during vacations, "Google CEO does a big dumb dumb" is sure to have implications for the technology and the users of said technology. As Elon Musk's decisions are having to the structure of Twitter's platform and their users.
At this point I think it's very misguided from technology enthusiasts to believe that the matter can be discussed in isolation and detached from human interests. In fact many of the ills of social media, gaming and AI came about because the matters were handled in such a way, and consequently they had political implications.
They were not designed in isolation from business and politics either. Phones moved away from 3.5mm to only have a single USB/Lightning input so that they could sell more wireless earbuds, and iPhones will be forced to change use USB-C due to an European Union decision. Business. Politics. Technology.