Good grief. What a terrible, misplaced, unilluminating, demagogic analogy Here's the deal: Companies don't define your legal rights; governments define your le

Good grief. What a terrible, misplaced, unilluminating, demagogic analogy Here's the deal: Companies don't define your legal rights; governments define your legal rights. Whether you like what Google do or not, they are a lawful company working within a country's legal framework. If people do not like it, their avenue is to elect representatives who will legislate a different more restrictive framework. This is what happened in the 70s with the environmental movement; you don't expect Exxon not to pollute; you bring in laws that make pollution illegal and set up the EPA to police them. The problem with the Taliban is that it is the bloody government (or the effective government). A woman in a Taliban area has no legal recourse because the Taliban is the law. If you don't like it, don't blame google; blame your lawmakers.