As Putin and the Chinese have so deftly showed, you control a country's major media, you control the country. There is a lot of political power bottled up in t

As Putin and the Chinese have so deftly showed, you control a country's major media, you control the country. There is a lot of political power bottled up in the news monopolies that Google is disrupting so it would be natural for the people who rely on that power in the government to act to protect it.