content: It's the same with all these tech giants. That's why the bulk of their funds is less on product development or user retention or marketing or whatever. It's all spent on (((lawyers))) and (((lobbyists))) whose sole purpose is to either acquire or crush potential competition. In Google's case, that's why they switched to Alphabet -- it's a holding company. This is nothing new either. When hemp as a material threatened cotton farmers due to its durability, strength and price, they lobbied the government to make it illegal.