[ricardo81]

Yes, five smaller Google's would be good, 4 more points of view.

Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter seems to have highlighted anyone with the greatest of intentions is never going to please everyone, and that choice and freedom to express that choice is good.

[emodendroket]

Consider this: one of the many complaints about big tech is companies having too much personal data on customers. But if we feel one entity having the data is bad, why is several having it better? That seems worse. Now it's even harder to keep track of.

[ricardo81]

But most alternatives choose not to retain personal data and have much more stringent privacy policies.

Realistically I don't think the average individual can fathom how much personal data the likes of Google has on people. Small example, I deleted my entire Youtube subscription/history several times, I keep getting recommended the same things. Clearly there's more to 'deleting it entirely'.

[emodendroket]

Perhaps your experience has been different than mine but I find the handling of personal data at very large companies is much more careful than what I have experienced elsewhere.

[dragonwriter]

> Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter seems to have highlighted anyone with the greatest of intentions is never going to please everyone

I dunno, wouldn’t that require assuming that Elon Musk had “the greatest of intentions”, as well as being a generalization to “never” from a single failure?

[ricardo81]

I think in his case he saw the flaws with Twitter, the bans, the algorithmic black box and thought he could bring something better to the table. Perhaps he learnt better after the fact.

At least having more private black box algos gives people a choice rather than a monopoly on choice.