Should Google serve the state – or serve its customers?

"The more connected populations become, the harder it will be for authoritarian governments to control them. Sunlight is the best disinfectant. There will be fewer genocides in a densely connected world. And so on.

The Google boss appeared to have one significant blind spot: the question of corporate power. After all, in a networked world companies like his will be among the masters of the universe."

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Should Google serve the state – or serve its customers? | John Naughton | Comment is free | The Observer: