I think the implication is that their moral compass was disregarded or non-existent until they gained their independence. Therefore not worthy of serious consideration.
People who don't ever consider or speak of morals or ethics are beside the point.
This kind of assumes that Google hasn't been progressively testing how far it can go to secure big contracts.
Over a 10+ year period it dropped the do no evil part, it implemented code siloes claiming it was because of Waymo's code being stolen, it prevented a union from being formed, it got into military and genocidal contracts.
I don't think it's the nice place to work at it was in the 2000s and early 2010s where the worst moral offence was advertising though a monopoly
People who don't ever consider or speak of morals or ethics are beside the point.