alt Hacker NewsIt really doesn't make sense for businessowners to see themselves as independent from the society they operate in.
Especially in Google's case where they've invested so much into remaking how society works worldwide. To expect people to simply accept anything and everything Google wants to do just because they're a private business regardless of how many billions of people their actions affect?
Lunacy.
How you want businesses to work and how they actually work are different things. By default, a business has no relations to society beyond beyond those facilitating financial transactions in such a way that said business makes a profit for its owner/stakeholders. Anything else is adopted strictly with the purpose of advancing that primary purpose, or is externally mandated via regulation, community pressure, etc. An entity that doesn't prioritize profit (given no external pressure) isn't a business.