Don't blame the companies. Blame the politicians that make the laws.

Another example of this stupidity by governments is making gambling illegal due to "morals", and then hosting a government-run lottery. Clearly their motives are not morals, but money.

Get involved with politics and get the laws changed. In so many of these cases, the laws are so poorly written that you could drive a truck through them.

I'll bet the anything Google did wrong here (legally) is minor at the most. Check back in a year and down-vote me if I'm wrong.