To be fair, I don't think Matt should be expected to respond to every complaint about Google on HN. Nobody appointed him the official Google spokesperson on HN, he's just another visitor here. Google is a huge corporation and AFAIK, Matt has nothing to do with Google+.
Nobody appointed him the official Google spokesperson on HN, he's just another visitor here.
Probably not, but he's sure behaved like a Google PR/damage-control-drone here, pretty much any time it looks like "Don't Be Evil" might not be accurate.