content: I think Google is poorly understood online since they also have an unusual political stance in that instead of contributing to nobody, or contributing to only those that they favor, they contribute to just about everything. So for instance they've hosted some loud social justice types and gave them some token roles at the company at the same time they were funding ALEC. The buddy buddy with the NSA at the same time they're lobbying and pushing to restrict government surveillance of the web. They arbitrarily take down millions of articles on questionably legitimate DMCA complaints while simultaneously sharing all those links in a public access database. Many of us have developed sort of hive mind, us or them, mentalities online. When a company is constantly playing both sides, it makes those with this mentality assume they're against them. Google is doing a lot of great things and is helping push society forward in some of the most important areas today such as AI. But Google isn't just Sergey and Larry. Google is more than 60,000 people dealing with countless different interests, including the political leaders of just about every single country on this planet, who all want to get their fingers into the company. And many of these interests do not have your interest in mind. Germany may want Google to ban all sorts of speech, China even more. A number of countries have passed 'right to be forgotten' laws where companies like Google are supposed to magically make somebody disappear. It's all quite absurd. It's like driving a car while there's a million different battering rams coming at it from every conceivable angle. The fact it's still going at all straight is, in my opinion, more than sufficient evidence that they're doing something outstanding.