Tim Sweeney signed away his right to criticize Google until 2032
TL;DR
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, known for harshly criticizing Google and Apple, has been silenced by a settlement with Google that restricts his ability to speak out until 2032, as detailed in a binding term sheet.
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney might be one of the most outspoken people in the history of the world. He fought two of the world's most valuable and powerful companies almost all the way to the US Supreme Court, insulting them again and again: "crooked," "deceitful," "insanely sneaky," calling Android a "fake open platform," calling both companies "gangster-style businesses that will do anything they think they can get away with," telling me how Google's Project Hug was "an astonishingly corrupt effort at a massive scale."
But Google has finally muzzled Tim Sweeney. It's right there in a binding term sheet for his settlement with Google.
On March 3 …