Google is not the victim in this. It is probably the prime tool in the presentation of reality. It fulfils the role that the legacy media used to do - ie news

Google is not the victim in this. It is probably the prime tool in the presentation of reality. It fulfils the role that the legacy media used to do - ie newspapers. Google wants to intermediate reality for you. A perfect example of that is how it tried to kill rss - first by making a fantastic rss client so that most people used it, only to then to stop the service. This was not due to budgetary considerations, - it was by design! RSS is puts you directly in touch with the content you like - this is a threat to a company such as google and whoever runs them. If you dig deeper, you will see that google has long-standing associations with military intelligence. "Both Brin and Page were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library" and it was funded through the National Science Foundation, among other federal agencies.[9][10][11][12] Brin and Page were also part of a computer science research team at Stanford University that received funding from Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS), a program managed for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) by large intelligence and military contractors." from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google If you look at the CIA's venture capital firm - In-Q-Tel, you will see that they funded google too: "In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[10] The shares were a result of Google's acquisition of Keyhole, Inc, the CIA-funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel (Why In-Q-Tel require a funding arm at all, is another question you can ponder.) When the Edward Snowden fiasco was running, I also recollect reading about 3-letter agencies having offices in google's offices - no questions asked. TLDR If you think that the 3-letter agencies are about keeping you safe from the world, you have this the wrong way around. They are about managing the people - they cannot allow information to be unrestrained. Google is an essential part of the infrastructure.