Comment by 0xcde4c3db

If this account is even remotely accurate, this goes well beyond "quashing ideas it doesn't like" and into chilling effects on reporting public-interest information. The New America affair was ostensibly about Lynn's opinion of an event that was already public knowledge (and, by extension, the opinionated policy stance of the organization). In this case Google was seemingly trying to keep questionable marketing tactics out of the public eye altogether.