Re:The Web Began Dying in 2014 (2017)
by feanaro on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:42AM
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> I want to believe most tech people are mature and educated enough to not treat Google as a single block, hate everything they do or love everything they do.
Unfortunately, as long as it is a single economic entity, it is a single block. All of its parts strengthen and finance the same entity.
If the different parts want to be treated separately, they must become separated.
I consider it basic logic that if you do not want something to be under a control of a single entity, you shouldn't continue fuelling an entity whose growing power will ensure exactly that. Isn't this far less judging and more nuanced than "Google is evil"? The motto is basically just a catchy shorthand for that.
Unfortunately, as long as it is a single economic entity, it is a single block. All of its parts strengthen and finance the same entity.
If the different parts want to be treated separately, they must become separated.
I consider it basic logic that if you do not want something to be under a control of a single entity, you shouldn't continue fuelling an entity whose growing power will ensure exactly that. Isn't this far less judging and more nuanced than "Google is evil"? The motto is basically just a catchy shorthand for that.