Encouraged*

I think that change is hilarious because in reality, some lawyer or middle-manager probably just looked at that and went “this is stupid and unprofessional, it shouldn’t be in an official statement” and took it out.

But it’s so much funnier to think that Google top brass were like

Yessssss… with this one change, we can do whatever we want and no one can stop us!

while rubbing their hands together or something

No, I am unfortunately a meme thief and should not be allowed in your chat servers.

My guess is that it was made by the person who listed themselves as the author. It’s a mastodon username there.