Google is losing allies across the political spectrum

Re:Google is losing allies across the political spectrum by pmoriarty on Thursday August 31, 2017 @04:44PM (#15143770)

"They are just getting too big and have too much information."

Don't you find it funny how an article about Google "losing allies across the political spectrum [in America]" would not even even mention the fact that Google is one of the main spies on the online behavior of Americans?

I guess everybody must be ok with that, because it doesn't seem to be important to the criticism that Google is getting.

The message from the critics as portrayed in this article seems to be: "Spy all you want, as long as you don't try to control what we say or compete unfairly."

Is that a fair way to characterize the position of Google's main critics?

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Re:Google is losing allies across the political spectrum by maxxxxx on Thursday August 31, 2017 @05:09PM (#15143955)

"Spy all you want, as long as you don't try to control what we say or compete unfairly."

I would take away the phrase "compete unfairly". Nobody cares about fair competition. They preferably want Google to help them or at least get out of the way.

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Re:Google is losing allies across the political spectrum by CaptSpify on Friday September 01, 2017 @02:59PM (#15151469)

I definitely see criticism about Google's spying. That might just be the social circles I run in though. Are there numbers available as to who has what criticisms of Google?

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