I was particularly peeved when they went public and only shared their company with settlers in the colonies when quite a few of us Europeans would have liked a slice of that cake. The China relationship wasn’t entirely noble either looked at from the position of those of us not benefitting from the balance sheet so why not get in there and give em what for.

The problem is that what they have created is incredibly useful and I don’t know what you could easily replace it with and certainly nothing government created would do a better job either in the USA the EU or even in our own UK. I think the real issue is that it is a worldwide monopoly and it feels like a USA tax on world business and that doesn’t seem right.

I think it would be more true to the Google motto of “You can make money without doing evil” if it started to pay tax on its profits in the countries in which it made them and then perhaps more good would come of the monopoly it holds and there would be less criticism of its position.