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Could you be more specific about both things that may be true?

A country or company can give you nice things personally, and be a good force in the world overall, while still crushing people between the gears of its massive impersonal bureaucracy when they hit an edge case.

Google also pushes ads everywhere, 24/7, and try to get people to read/watch anything provided that the user remains attentive/addicted and that some advertiser pay them top dollar for that. Google search and YouTube (and Android and the rest) may be nice and free) but it's certainly too early to call then 'a good force in the world overall'.

I understand that it wasn't your point but I'm surprised Facebook is always presented as the bad guy (doing exactly the same things in different place) but we usually compare 'the good of Google' vs some little mishap (having a single person leaves the mastodonte).

I'd rather have worse search than search driven based on the global memetic consciousness. PageRank was good enough. the perverse incentives of dual marketplace advertising is too rife for abuse

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