I had an employer do this - I was working there a few years, owner came in and said “we’re doing background checks, fill this out and sign it”. I asked what happened if something came back on it, and he said that I’d be fired.
Sometimes, how you say it is as or more important than what you say. Giving benign plausible explanations for red flag behavior is expected from big corporations. This isn't their first rodeo, or at least not for the people they've staffed that deal with this.
Lol what?
Compare with almost any working class work-place with a union, and you will be surprised what 'willing to make stands' looks like.
Oh, and it's all done under a group to make help avoid consequences.
All sane choices to make, but not exactly what I meant to convey by taking a stand on moral or ethical convictions. I more meant being willing to deal with the consequences when you don't really have enough power to force that change. I wasn't trying to paint Google employees as overly noble, just somewhat that and also priveleged and naive. And of course that's just my perception from the outside.
A major example is the massive action they took against South African apartheid in the 1980s - a political issue many thousands of miles from their interests.
https://www.aamarchives.org/who-was-involved/trade-unionists...
Many students' unions vote to ban newspapers they don't like from campus, and things like that as well.
Google employees aren't even remotely near that kind of practical stand yet.