They criticized Google for holding a value they perceived to be at odds with the underlying economic system. During a discussion of said company's defiance of

They criticized Google for holding a value they perceived to be at odds with the underlying economic system. During a discussion of said company's defiance of a federal judge, such a critique seems pertinent to me! We have continually observed the most powerful actors in our system abusing it in consistent ways: cornering markets, becoming monopolies, bullying smaller companies, constructing walled gardens, diminishing the concept of consumer ownership, etc. I think we ought to allow comments like theirs in discussions like this.