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Cynically, because he believes them on his side?

... for now.

Google is not a public service. They are a for profit company. They are not our friends, their youtube ranking algo is not designed to be fair and improve the life of human kind. It's designed to make money.

I don't get the outrage: we warned people for 15 years this would happen. Now people put all their eggs in the same basket and cry when things go wrong.

Well, good. It's a learning opportunity.

There is a massive, massive difference between a trillion dollar company optimising for money and optimising for "the truth".

I prefer my corporations greedy instead of virtuous, it's much more trustworthy.

There is a lot of money and power in shaping what is considered to be true.

The alternative is having a giant corporation heedlessly promote lies which will get people killed.

"You shouldn't be able to poison the well" is not invalidated if the well is owned by a corporation.