Who will take on the behemoths of Big Tech? | The Spectator
Google is the single biggest political lobbyist in the US, but also sprays money at the academics who study internet law and culture, and who as though coincidentally come up with theories friendly to Google. Google and its corporate comrades have also, Rana Foroohar shows, succeeded in weakening patent-protection laws, which is good for them because their business depends on copying the ideas of new startups but bad for everyone else. Many experts quoted here say the result has been to stifle innovation, not only in the computer industry but in fields such as biotech as well.
I will always hate Google. Great product though. Utterly destructive of course.