Google's Excessive Power

google search is a utility class service at this point, a tier below tap water and electricity. the world would be an objectively worse place without it for billions of people. with great power comes great responsibility is how the saying goes, but i can see them fighting tooth and nail to not be labeled as such. same for facebook and others like them.

Powerful entities are getting less and less liable to the public every day. And it's mostly because of us: we don't make them pay any mistake, so they carry on as long as it profit them.Google is not your friend. It's a for profit company that protect its interests.Basically, they won't do anything because:- they don't care. They never did. They used to pretend they did when they were not the leader. Now they are.- they won't gain anything from changing

It sounds like you aren't a fan of how Google and Facebook operate from that comment; I don't think allowing _more_ companies to act like that is a very good remedy to that problem

The once beloved company Google turned into a gigantic evil company with absolutely no compassion towards its developers and users. Everything they do is presented and marketed as something good, but deep under it is shady, controversial and goes straight into our norms of a good society. Imagine if companies like Google, Amazon, apple etc are dictating the rules. It won't be far of a regime in China. Expelled from society based on automated bits and false information. We shouldn't acc

Google isn't a government entity, it's a private company. Had there been more restrictions on what tech corporations (and corporations as a whole) could do, power could have been limited by the concentrated power of government. The issue here is that Google can dictate how we live our lives so heavily without any of its users having a say on how Google and its services should be run. The promotion of Laissez-faire capitalism here in the US promoted Google's growth into it's c

Google is a private company. So they can choose there customers. If they don't want you, they are free to throw you out.I do love these sorts of arguments. There is a modern expression that goes "f* around and find out". Like Standard Oil did.https://www.britannica.com/event/Sherman-Antitrust-ActWhen you have governments using Google logins or

if google and facebook are in favor of something, I should automatically be against it?

Companies like google are indeed out of control and creating a dystopian future. Amongst other things, Google has already unleashed bots that arbitrarily destroy livelihoods (e.g. automated account terminations, in markets where there are few, if any alternatives to Google). I have found that dealing with companies like Google is eerily similar to dealing with an authoritarian government (e.g. they don't care about normal individuals), and as such companies gain more control over society (a

Yes! A million times yes.Google wields too much control and is forcing the evolution of technology to further their grasp. They reach into every sector of technology, and every play they make deepens their moat.Look at how fast they spin up new products to see if they can claw into a new space. They move mountains if they sense they can grapple something new, and if it doesn't work out they tear it down without considering the users. It isn't about the individual - they want tota

A way to think about this is to see Google (or Apple) as a De-Facto State which governs a very important "ecosystem" in which customers and other businesses rely almost exclusively on. Its very existence depends on businesses and people relaying for important aspects of their existence on them. This is how they stay big and relevant.In this environment they must make decisions for the sake of their their own interests and sometimes to protect other users.The problem is th