Goggle, fakebook, twitter and others have never been "private" companies. They've had a incestuous relationship with the government from the very beginning of their existence. And, have used that relationship to stifle all their competition. They are monopolies and should be broken up.
Google's entire business model is based on you surrendering to corporate surveillance. That's it. All they do is repackage mass corporate surveillance into convenient, free, trendy applications that suck up all your data.
Your private information is the "secret sauce" to their entire business. And when you use any Google product, you feed them more data. Your data makes them powerful and allows them to:
Dominate the online advertisement industry.
Partner up with governments for mass surveillance and other "projects". Google (or Alphabet) is one of the largest lobbyists in the world, spending money to influence regulations, bribe politicians, and get tax breaks. Classified documents revealed Google has been helping the NSA with mass surveillance since early 2009.
Just the other day Fox and Breitbart released emails from Google executives in which they openly admitted toattempting to influence the election in favor of Hillary Clinton. Some of their activities are in direct violation of federal election law.
