Obama should have never intervened to stop the FTC from suing Google on antitrust issues in the U.S. either. Google has only gotten much more brazen after that to the point that many people no longer believe the company's "don't be evil" propaganda, which I believe has served Google very well initially. Google started ruining its own image through its recent actions and it will only make government actions against the company that much more likely to succeed now. Google used to have a lot of "soft power" on these issues, and it's been rapidly declining over the past few years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/technology/ftc-staff-prep...