Eric Schmidt on the NSA* (*translated from original bullshitese)

Just because it’s fun to picture all large multinationals as evil

There’s absolutely nothing “fun” about it and it’s a tedious and rather upsetting process, actually. But, there’s advantages to facing reality instead of wishing it away.

On the other hand, I think it’s probably “fun” for people to keep their head in the sand and ignore their well-documented track record of committing various evil in the name of profits. It’s profitable and perhaps “fun” to wish reality away, I’ll grant you that.

when Google becomes evil

That’s a foregone conclusion a long time ago. Here’s some starters…

Some more of Google the Gorilla in action throwing its anti-competitive, monopolistic weight around: