The employees who signed the 2026 letter had a structural advantage their 2018 predecessors lacked: they filed their objection in writing, with names attached, before the contract closed. It did not matter. Google's decision to proceed — confirmed publicly while the letter was still circulating — establishes that the sequence of events the employees hoped would create pressure (letter, public attention, leadership response, reconsideration) does not run in that direction anymore. The company acknowledged the dissent and continued. That is a different institutional posture than ignoring dissent, and it…