The question I have about public policy in this realm is, "when does something become a service the public has a certain entitlement to?" Because, if I think a

The question I have about public policy in this realm is, "when does something become a service the public has a certain entitlement to?" Because, if I think about how long Google has been around (and been popular), this is on the order of 15 years. You might even say just 10 years in terms of when it became widely used. That's the blink of an eye in government terms. If I were to be Google, I might ask, "where do you have the gall to take what we built from scratch, that you didn't even know about 10 years ago, and demand that it serve the public in the way that you want?" On the other hand, the societal good in me says, "you've affected and changed the world to something new, policies need to take that into account". I guess, if Google had chosen to be a pay-for-service, private club that only certain people could use, then they wouldn't be in this situation. You make something private enough, and it'll never be so big as to attract attention. But then they wouldn't be worth like $1T. I guess, when do we have the right to demand that something turn into a public utility? Or that it has changed to effectively become one?