(IIRC) Implication was that they knew it was ..snarky (at best, of any premeditation?) but probably beyond such droids to see it was also obscene. Also a litmus.
And this was Their Thing==it Did get 'attention' all right..

Still, with such panache as Ford's et al--one may still hope that the cumulative effect shall become the Corporate/devolved-effect of fucking karma.
(I hope it isn't beneath the dignity of Cthulhu ... to turn a whole room-ful into toads, say. Just for omnipotent-Fun.)