[ExI] No to Google

[John Clark]

On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

* > Google is simply too big and powerful, *


*The world is big and powerful so it's inevitable that there are going to
be big and powerful things in it. If not corporations then what do you want
those big and powerful things to be, lots of high technology corporations
or one huge nation state? As for me, I'm an unrepentant capitalist.  *

*> and seems to be getting moreso all the time. *


*Yes, that's because the world is getting larger and more powerful, and
that growth rate is about to go into hyperdrive.  *

> *I'm fairly sure that I'm the only person I know in real life that
> doesn't have one* [a Google account]


*I wouldn't be surprised.  *

*> Contrast this with the browsers that we use, or the operating system/s
> we favour. *


*I assume you have a phone, if so its operating system almost certainly
came from Apple or Google, and your web browser probably came from Apple,
Google or Microsoft, mine sure does and I thank them for it. *


> *> When I said "I'd hate to lose this list", I wasn't referring to Google
> shutting the list down, I was referring to the fact that if it moved to
> Google, I wouldn't be able to take part in it any more. The same reason I
> sometimes read, but never post to, the Extropolis list.*


*I'm sincerely sorry to hear that, I'd really like to get your input. But
what negative consequences do you envision happening if you were to make
such a post?  *

*John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*

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