What segment of the population do you imagine investigates cures for things like this?
Nerds and geeks, boy, nerds and geeks.
Since we were watching for a meteor flyby, the explosion and crater are difficult to imagine as merely coincidence.
Are the powers that be embroiled in seemingly constant effort to reverse those personal freedoms given to the citizens? Sure.
However, a voting populace that expects better treatment generally gets it.
You're right, but that applies once you get an expensive lawyer, only.
One of the great strengths of a populace gifted with civil rights is an abiding belief that those rights belong to them. No law or condition of government can abridge an ingrained belief in individual rights.
Would I rather be a wealthy defendant than a poor one? A no-brainer, sure, but when you no longer believe that basic rights are afforded to you, you have already lost.
Jackpot.
$19 million to Google.... simply good PR at a bargain.
Sounds like a tiny bit of advertising budget is being deployed here.
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.