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Google is the most terrifying company today. De-google yourselves as much as you can, folks. This company cannot be trusted. I know this post will get flagged
by Jerry2 9y ago
Google is the most terrifying company today. De-google yourselves as much as you can, folks. This company cannot be trusted.
I know this post will get flagged and deleted because so many google employees post here and flag everything. But it must be said. Do not trust Google.
- psyc 9y agoI'll back you on this opinion. I was a huge fan of early Google (98-04). They seemed like a noble, cute, altruistic steward of the Internet, and they did a lot of good. IMO we have to acknowledge that things have changed. The factors that made them succeed wildly, allowed them to grow into a profoundly self-interested, monopolistic behemoth with entirely too much power. They no longer even appear well-intentioned, and we ought to update our expectations accordingly.
- DINKDINK 9y agoI'll add another point. Even if you believe, today, that Google is good/noble, it's still best for the market to promote competition. If you allow too much power to concentrate into an oligopoly, the cost to capture the market drops to a level where coercive actors have the capability to do so.