I’m surprised by Hacker News’ apparent general distaste of anti-trust authorities in this thread. Starting a company is about changing the status quo establishe

I’m surprised by Hacker News’ apparent general distaste of anti-trust authorities in this thread. Starting a company is about changing the status quo established by dominant players; if you can’t do that because they use their market share to price you out of any revenue stream, poach your engineers, threaten anyone carrying ads for your service, or in Google’s case, simply put their service ahead of yours no matter what the CTR and retention of your offers are… Well, there is no investor who’s going to look at you. From a community that was hailing Duck Duck Go’s success a week ago, you seem barely concerned by allowing an Indian equivalent to emerge. Yes, the FTC is satisfied for the efforts in the US market -- but Google is not just in the US. Even if many of your decisions don’t reflect that, your service impact other cultures. Google realised that early on, and considers how Indians search (in several languages) write (with many alphabets) give directions (using visible facades rather than map-inspired cardinal points); LibertyMail, Duck Duck Go, Open Street Map don’t take that into account nearly enough, and if you want a billion person to have the luxury of not facing a ‘take it or get off the internet’ monopoly… That decision, as imperfect as it is or excessive as it might come of, needs to be defended. Corruption? Do you really think that’s a point to be made without proof? Just because… you don’t know of India but you have prejudice about that? Threats of leaving? Really? Because that’s exactly what all Google engineers of Indian descent want to say to their family in India: you know, there are commenters on Hacker News who think that the country where I received the education that lead me to be SVP is such a backward cesspool that they’d rather strike out the entire sub-continent where I grew up and where the people I love and for whom I work all live… Google invests in incredibly creative ways to offer connexion to remote places, ethnographers to understand what services they need and how to design them, because having more people on-line is their only hope of growth, and you’d think they would react out of spite, and throw that away? What you are projecting on them is your own blatant racism, stefan_kendall3, and no one here has failed to notice.