Yeah. I was pretty shocked by this statement:
"The universal index is the shared heritage of humanity. It ought to be owned by us all. No corporation or nation has the right to privatize the index, commercialize the index, censor what they do not like or auction search ranking to the highest bidder."
Google created the index. You don't have the right to just declare that it should belong to anyone else. No one knows how to maintain and improve it as much as the creator (i.e. Google). No individual or group has the right to steal the index, control the index, etc. Create your own index, or just don't use Google's. Go use Bing, or Ask.com.