Google is guilty of what, exactly? Do you dislike how they treat you, the user, as the product? Change your Google privacy settings or better yet switch to Goog

Google is guilty of what, exactly? Do you dislike how they treat you, the user, as the product? Change your Google privacy settings or better yet switch to Google alternatives (Protonmail, DuckDuckGo, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, the like, YouTube is too useful to abandon). All I see is a big push to vilify tech companies so politicians can look like they're for the little guy. Well, your rant sounds emotive, but part of the question is a legal (and to some extent ethical) one. It's been considered, after the experience of the late 1800s and early 20th century, that monopolies (or cartels in old parlance) cause wide enough damage to trade (i.e. free market capitalism) that they should be regulated by government. Classical free market economists warned of monopolies. Modern free market philosophers like Milton Friedman argued stopping them was one of the (limited) critical functions of government. The U.S. Federal Government has the ability to regulate them for the benefit of all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_antitrust_law Serious question, here. When I read comments like these on HN, I have to ask: do people learn philosophy and economics in typical computer science programs?