[gumby]

> > Google is not your friend and must be treated as an adversary.

> This applies to literally any public corporation.

I can clearly see the "not your friend" part.

Are all public corporations the adversaries of citizens though? I'm not sure.

I'm not asking for edge cases: companies tend to be friends and not adversaries for their CEOs, for example, and I can imagine that Red Hat (when independent) was not any individual's adversary).

But it a good heuristic that any given public company will be your adversary? Certainly none really care about you.

[grog454]

>Are all public corporations the adversaries of citizens though?

In a way, yes. Public corporations generally seek profit maximization. Rational consumers seek value maximization. More profit for seller = less value for consumer. Less profit for seller = more value for consumer. This is an adversarial situation by definition.