> From my perspective, Google's goals are aligned with improving the world by offering information services. Search, Gmail, Maps, Translate, basically all of the Other Bets, etc.--it's easy to imagine that the people behind them are more concerned with impact on the world than on generating profit or consolidating Google's power.
I completely believe that the people behind them are more concerned with impact than on generating profit or consolidating Google's power, but good intentions only get you so far. Google is still abusing it's power, whether that is the goal of the people behind it or not. Google could build those systems in a way that protects their user's privacy, but choose not to, simply because they are optimizing for profit, rather than for empowering their users.
Most people aren't scared of the intentions of the good people at Google, it's that Google clearly has too many people with bad intentions in the mix as well, based on the actions that the company takes as a whole.
I completely believe that the people behind them are more concerned with impact than on generating profit or consolidating Google's power, but good intentions only get you so far. Google is still abusing it's power, whether that is the goal of the people behind it or not. Google could build those systems in a way that protects their user's privacy, but choose not to, simply because they are optimizing for profit, rather than for empowering their users.
Most people aren't scared of the intentions of the good people at Google, it's that Google clearly has too many people with bad intentions in the mix as well, based on the actions that the company takes as a whole.