It had been two years since the supposedly irreparable damage that he inflicted on Google and his "clear violation" of policy, yet he continued to be employed at the firm in its YouTube operations. Later that year, he would be one of six inventors on a team led by John Hanke to patent "A System and Method for Transporting Virtual Objects in a Parallel Reality Game."

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 471