There was a US government push a few years ago to treat Google (etc) as public utilities, with the same responsibilities to users as any other utility. eg supp

There was a US government push a few years ago to treat Google (etc) as public utilities, with the same responsibilities to users as any other utility. eg support for users, reasonable conflict resolution, etc. * https://www.rankscience.com/blog/why-google-should-be-regulated-as-a-public-utility https://www.rankscience.com/blog/why-google-should-be-regula... There were plenty of articles about it online at the time. The above is just one I found in a quick search now. Unfortunately, the legislation didn't pass. And now, Google (etc) are further emboldened...