An eye-opening look into the world of tech public communications: a reporter at Mission Local wanted to know what Google thought about being more hated than ever these days. Its (inadvertent) reply says it all.

Google rarely says much to the press even when you're asking about cool new Android feature, so has naturally been tightlipped about socioeconomic resentment in the heart of Silicon Valley. It's clearly not very much fun to be on the inside. There's probably a joke to be made about not knowing how to use Gmail while working at Google, but let's just focus on the shuttles.

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