They did it dishonestly, covertly and knowingly for profit. People should have gone to jail the same as if they broke into sergey and larry's houses and photographed everything and sold the pictures to the highest bidder while claiming "consent" because they typed the question into chrome which larry and sergey have decided to monitor.
The idea that Google is better than Microsoft is like arguing whether fresh horse manure is worse to eat than fresh cow manure.
Take each crook entirely individually.
Google is horrible, market abusing, foul, dishonest and needs to be broken up into tiny pieces.
Completely separately to that and in no way is it related:
Microsoft is horrible, market abusing, foul, dishonest and needs to be broken up into tiny pieces.
In the race to the bottom everyone who passes the threshold of acceptable behaviour in civilized, democratic society that upholds the rule of law and equality before it needs to dealt with separately in the strongest terms. "But s/he does worse!" is as ridiculous a defence as it sounds.
And when you look at what Apple are doing, google are not interesting.
And when you look at what facebook does, microsoft are not interesting.
And so on.
Break them up.
/me waves to the cia/fbi/nsa aplogists who clearly want them all big and controlled.
edit: pretty sure the thing I was responding to has been stealth edited away. @dang any news when you'll get a release showing a parent has been edited after being responded to in some way? Then at least we'll know they should have stuck an "edit: " description or something.
