Nonwithstanding your argument, their size also makes them suspect by default. They would be able to push control much farther if it had separated interests.
Look at LetsEncrypt: A Google initiative. Yet 25% of the world’s websites use it.
Look at LetsEncrypt: A Google initiative. Yet 25% of the world’s websites use it.
No. Let's Encrypt is a service of the Internet Security Research Group, a California Public Benefit Corporation, it isn't an "initiative" of Google except in the same sense that the Red Cross is an initiative of Google, or Sweden is a US state, to make it seem "true" you need to squint so hard you can't see anything properly at all.