I personally strongly believe also that Googles actions were politically motivated. Google is not standing up for free speech or anything like that - they are j

I personally strongly believe also that Googles actions were politically motivated. Google is not standing up for free speech or anything like that - they are just supporting the position of the United States government. I expect a company to which I entrust my data to be neutral politically. I don't care if my data is used to benefit someone, but I do not want my data to be used for political purposes. Google, in towing the line of the American government, has shown that it is a political entity, and at some point, it could decide that anyone "anti-american" would have their data handed over to the American government. A company that has so much information about me should not be making any kind of political statement. What if this were Nazi Germany and Google decided to take the side of the government, and provided my data to it? I can understand a company when it says that it wants to make money, it's motivations are very clear to me. But when it says it "supports freedom", well, who is the person that defines freedom? Who is to say that that definition of freedom is the same as mine? Was Mandela not called a terrorist at some point and at another point a freedom fighter?