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Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy internal messages (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

If it's about internal messages about illegal activities, yes. In a court case, during discovery, internal messages may be requested.

The idea for this asshat is that if those particular messages are missing, then that evidence is gone, making it tampering with evidence.

Normally that would result in a victory for them but if it comes out that they deleted relevant messages, like right now, then normally that would be very bad. If it were me, I would probably go to jail over that.

However, this is the US and it's about some rich asshole, so probably nothing will happen