&quot;Operating through a company doesn&#x27;t make me immune from the law, and neither should working through an algorithm.&quot;<p>That might be technically true but in reality it quite often does. See nearly all bankers from 2K8 melt down for good examples of how money and power buy immunity in what is really an economically based caste system.<p>Do you really think if this was some garage start-up and not Google that they would have been granted anything but a swift kick in the ass out the office door of whatever bureaucrat handled this?