Google Is at the Center of a Storm Brewing over Big Tech

“And Google’s services are free to consumers.”

And here lies the rub. Isn’t it about time that there’s a very thorough, modern, investigation with regards to anti-trust in the age of data?

While prices may be falling, data is accumulating at enormous rates within a handful of companies. This hoarding is out of sight, with no oversight, nor knowledge of what power it potentially holds. What good will 1890 laws do in order to help the public deal with this new reality?

How many laws have been completely reworked from the ground up to be able to cope with these new business practises, 20 years on from Google and Amazon’s launch?

Honest question :)

Good, they need to be. The scummiest of all organizations that somehow thinks they hold the moral high ground.

I believe Canada is building a case as well as I had to give some inputs along with few other startup founders.

Google bots banned and deleted with a suspension lasting the lifetime of the founders and anyone related to them because their bots decided that our apps were "infringing copyrights". Google's response to our appeal is to deploy our app "somewhere else" but there is no other marketplace!

People serve less time for murdering and Google kicking out developers for their entire life just because of their bots is absolutely disgusting behaviour.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The once cool garage startup has finally grown up to become corporate, political, and ultra-captialist. This is not the Google I once admired. To the contrary, it is now the company that I actively avoid (even to the point of null routing).

If you have the choice or are in a position to make technological choices for others, chose and support organisations and projects that aim to bring power back to the people... let's never let so much power centralise again.

Will antitrust cases comes to the other FANG companies too? Is it inevitable? In a similar way to Google dominating search, Amazon dominates e-commerce and cloud, Facebook dominates social networks, and Apple dominates its entire ecosystem (including not allowing you to install your own software).