I share the same distrust about Facebook and Google on HN, but only the latter seems to bring substantial downvotes. To be fair, they have more employees, and

I share the same distrust about Facebook and Google on HN, but only the latter seems to bring substantial downvotes. To be fair, they have more employees, and I don't assume bad faith in the downvotes — I've been wrong more than a few times. Still, I sense that Google elicits a gratitude that is unjustified when it comes to relationships between companies, customers and employees.