Apps, email, and social are the three things Google does not control.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Google is a private company. It has the capacity to utilize its massive power for whatever political agenda it chooses. But for it to pretend to be an advocate for Internet freedom while simultaneously disadvantaging messages it finds politically incorrect is deeply hypocritical.
Even though Google may do very well, there will always be an alternative to what Google is doing, and people will always have the free choice... because there's no way for us to prevent them from exercising that choice. That is one of the key aspects of why the Internet has been so successful. No technologies can dominate.
Google's entire business model and its planning for the future are banking on an open and free Internet. And it will not succeed if the Internet becomes overly balkanized.
Google's screen for privacy settings does give you more options for what you share than Apple's does. But it's not a complete list, and people aren't aware of whether or not that information will go to a third party.
Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
Our Web sites and our e-mail lists are the two things that we control.
I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.
Google was a venture-funded company. Being part of that brings an energy to the company.
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