I came to Google via acquisition end of 2011 and left end of 2021. Google bought my employer so it could further cement its display ads monopoly. They never had a moral compass, they just wore one was a costume so that nobody would dig too closely into its business practices.

We got to wave pitchforks and ask tough questions at TGIF for a while, and march in pride parades under a Google banner, and get fed nice treats and the like but under it all was still just an old fashioned railway monopoly.

A huge fire hose of cash that let it play in all sorts of domains and espouse some vaguely California Ideology liberal/libertarian ideals while doing it.

But the moment that monopoly came under threat and the moment they felt they no longer needed the costume, it came off.

Google never had a moral compass. Anybody who thought it did was naive. It's not possible for a corporate entity to have one.