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.
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.
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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/
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If I understand correctly the article is a lie. The author “misunderstood” what they were reading.
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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.