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Rafer sez:
To your main point, I agree that the government anti-trust actions are dubious from several points of view. And, the only way to win is to use some version of your six principles to build a great company that builds on G’s increasing vulnerabilities. However, I’m more than happy to see my tax dollars hamstring the competition and make my job easier. I hope the DOJ sues them six ways to Sunday, and the sooner the better.

I’m specifically open to Google declining by any means necessary due to your quote above. It is the nature of judgmental, wannabe totalitarians to have a slippery code of conduct. They are particularly likely to apply higher standards to weaker third parties than they do themselves. It’s a particularly American problem to confuse morals and ethics in this way. The results are  predictable.

Anything Google does is by definition not-evil. Google’s definition of other peoples’ evil changes so often that they’d need to use Twitter to keep us all up to date.

That’s why I’d rather deal with Facebook. They make no bones about being Out for #1. Their motives and future plans are transparent for anyone who cares to pay attention. They hate to say “no” directly about features they don’t want to ship, but hopefully that’s just organizational immaturity.