Threatened with what exactly? It’s an article reporting about documents that have been made public through a lawsuit. All of this information is freely available on the web.
They haven’t been. Google’s lawyers moved to restrict trial documents from being made public, and the judge agreed to. Only a handful were briefly available prior to that ruling.
In that case Google wouldn’t “threaten the hell out of the employee”, they’d send a cease and desist to Wired, the company. Which, given that these documents are apparently considered confidential by the court, would make a lot more sense.
I don’t know if Google threatening the DDG employee would change the situation. Wired published it. If their writer came back and said “I was threatened by a megacorp for my excellent work. Please take it down and tell everyone I was wrong” wired, at very least, would not issue that statement.
I think what’s more likely is that Google threatened the hell out of the employee.
Threatened with what exactly? It’s an article reporting about documents that have been made public through a lawsuit. All of this information is freely available on the web.
They haven’t been. Google’s lawyers moved to restrict trial documents from being made public, and the judge agreed to. Only a handful were briefly available prior to that ruling.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/technology/google-antitrust-trial-secrecy.html
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/29/google-antitrust-trial-limited-public-access
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/google-exec-said-users-get-hooked-on-search-engine-like-cigarettes-or-drugs/
I see, I missed that they managed to get the lawsuit back under wraps.
Still, I find it highly unlikely that the article was revoked under threat.
If I understand correctly the article is a lie. The author “misunderstood” what they were reading.
In that case Google wouldn’t “threaten the hell out of the employee”, they’d send a cease and desist to Wired, the company. Which, given that these documents are apparently considered confidential by the court, would make a lot more sense.
I don’t know if Google threatening the DDG employee would change the situation. Wired published it. If their writer came back and said “I was threatened by a megacorp for my excellent work. Please take it down and tell everyone I was wrong” wired, at very least, would not issue that statement.