This has nothing to do with complying with the laws of a country. India doesn't have such laws.

Google definitely acts like they are above the law. See the multiple occasions they've been under investigations and in court in various countries and EU as a whole. You can start from the Wi-Fi snooping.

Essentially it's this. It also applies to Google's action elsewhere. First they pirate ebooks and defense that right, but they have no problem removing megaupload and the pirate bay from suggestions. Secondly they open source products when they have to, but most of their products are sealed closed source projects.

What happened to freedom of speech, Google? You are the one that always cites of freedom of speech when denying removing material, yet you now block access to videos? Or does freedom of speech only concern the U.S.?

Google has let itself go. They are no longer the freedom loving and defending company they once were. All went downhill after the failured product Google+.

Have you guys tried to use Google? They are constantly trying to guess what we want to search, up to the irritating point. They don't supply the search results we want, they supply search results for another queries they thought we wanted instead. We didn't!

What comes to Google+, they really did a bad choice there. There is a reason why pseudo-anonymity like nicknames is common in internet. There are people that are so against something you say that it gets you into trouble. That is when and why we use nicknames. But nooo, Google+ demands real names for everyone. It's Google's way or the highway.

Google is only little about openness while most of their stuff is actually closed source and closed ecosystem. They have both and in a way that always suits them better. There are in fact more closed systems than open, just see Google's search engine, adwords/adsense, youtube etc.. They only use and support open source when they can't be bothered to do all the work. In a way they steal from open source projects and hardly ever bring anything back.

So in fact this is old problem with Google's products. Other products too... Hell, just look at Google+. It's a perfect copy of Facebook and a product that greatly emphasizes closedness. They are even more closed than Facebook as currently they only allow very few developers to be make apps and games for Google+. I mean it's been like this for ages. It feels like they've given up all hope about Google+. They're just thinking how to phase it out now that they made the whole thing such a big thing, like including it in search results etc. But Google+ is dying.

Android is about the same shit Google has thrown at us multiple times. They only open it because they used Linux as the base. They wouldn't open it otherwise. In fact they've even ignored GPL multiple times when they've been late to open up their sources as required. Android is only open because it has to be.

Google tries to close it, be no mistaken. They require you to pay lots of money to Google if you want to use any of the Android trademarks, logos or name on your product. You don't get any of the Google apps if you don't pay up and stick to Google's "standards" (which are there to limit competition, like in this case). You don't even get to give your users access to Google Play so that they could buy and download apps and games. No, you don't get any of that. It's Google's way or the highway.

That being said, it doesn't surprise me at all that Google is doing like this. They are scared of the competition in China because they can't get Chinese people to like their products. Google China failed miserably too, and they tried to use "ok China is baad mmkay" as an excuse for leaving. The real reason for their escape was that Google China was failing miserably while Baidu was winning as search engine and other Chinese social networks and market places were winning as such. Google just didn't have anything to offer to Chinese people.

And you may wonder what they are afraid now? Well, of course the same Chinese companies. Both North American and European finances are going to shits and Asia just keeps growing. They are already much bigger than US and their GDP is only growing. Soon they are much larger market than we are and that is when things really start rolling and happening. Google is very afraid of that and tries everything it can to limit competition in China. Google is afraid of losing.

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