To Head Off Regulators, Google Makes Certain Words Taboo
▻https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/08/07/google-documents-show-taboo-words-antitrust
The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “networkeffects” As Google faces at least four major antitrust investigations on two continents, internal documents obtained by The Markup show its parent company, Alphabet, has been preparing for this moment for years, telling employees across the massive enterprise that certain language is off limits in all written communications, no matter how casual. The (...)