Google is Adults Only


	Google is Adults Only

Andy Greenberg

3-27-2008 2:59 PM

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Andy Greenberg says:

Probably every company has these strange legal policies that are read by no one and are never enforced. But Google, as usual, gets the most scrutiny.

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