I feel like Google is quite down to earth and EVERYONE ELSE has delusions of Google Exceptionalism. From regulators to users to staff.<p>* Google cannot provide you with an internet free of "bad things" (defined 8bn different ways by 8bn different people).<p>* Google are a decades old, mature, mega corp, they are pressed to be efficient and that means (increasingly) layoffs, not R&D.<p>* Google cannot provide gold standard service quality to accounts that are worth a few dollars or even 100s of dollars a year.<p>* Google cannot magically produce secure systems WITH backdoors only for law enforcement etc.<p>* Breaking up google will not solve any of these issues either<p>And yet people continue to insist...
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