They are just getting too big and have too much information. I wonder if a tax system could be created that discouraged companies to grow beyond a certain size and instead favored smaller ones. The potential for abuse by giant companies like Facebook and Google is just too much.
Google is scary but I suspect it's actually a decently moral incarnation relative to many alternatives, and is really a victim of the confluence of a few megatrends that are unavoidable, such as the simple technical ability to systematically monitor and profit from monitoring all behavior (to good and bad), and the ability to affect all discourse and information flow. These are megatrends that Google just happened to have a lead on. I have no faith that we will replace them with anything better if we decide to tear them down. I also don't find it a coincidence that Google is at-risk because of the recent spike in our authoritarian PC left which is pathologically obsessed with tearing down all productive institutions.
Google is reminding me of when a very well regarded (also, internally, by its employees) grown-large company went public.<p>It wasn't all instantaneous, but over the course of a couple of years, it went from highly sought to bureaucratic pressure cooker.<p>At Google, the engineers aren't running the show any more, I'm guessing. And it shows.
I'm happy with Google having political influence than any other company.<p>But overall I'm disenchanted with tech companies doing the same things that earlier big corporations did to gain political influence.<p>Probably naive, but I was thinking they'll change the game wrt lobbying etc.<p>Is no one 'disrupting' political influence?
I think they are too big, have too much information, have too many near-monopoly positions they abuse, and far too much control over the internet.<p>Same thing applies to facebook, and to a lesser extent Amazon.<p>break them up.
As somebody who has received immense value from Google, I am sad to see the limit of human ingenuity. You start with good intentions but your genius becomes a burden.