I understand why you think that, and you might be right. But I also know there are a lot of good people at Google, and I dream of the company waking up as a group again and focusing on its mission responsibly. Doing the right thing, openly.

Having said that, I personally also think that social networks and other internet technologies should run on a federated protocol: my current (early stage) proposal for the kind of thing we should try to do with this technology is https://flancia.org/agora. I see it as compatible/synergistic with the post we're discussing.