Also his donation is presumably either somewhat or entirely enabled by mullvad so voting with your dollar is about the only way to express dissatisfaction.

They need a classic appeal to ‘think of the children’

We have to trample rights or we can’t protect your children from the bad people.

Google is a publicly traded company and I’m sure it doesn’t need to be said here but the incentives do not allow them to be any thing but a for profit operation.

They are not your friend. They are not moral or immoral. They might do things that you agree with but that is only tangential. They don’t support you or your political leanings. They don’t have political leanings even though they might pretend to. If they do support your cause it’s only to garner goodwill in the hopes of increasing earnings. They would change ‘their’ mind tomorrow if that made the stock go up a single cent.

Like marathons there is an entire population of people who ‘cheat’ in something that has no real consequence except to talk themselves up.