Democracy is the form of governance that led to the international phenomenon that has lately been a venue for free speech, anonymity, free exchange of ideas and has enabled innumerable communities to organize and work for the common good like never before -- more widely known as the Internet. Google as a company would not have been possible without the Internet, as its core business relies on Internet remaining open and free. The less freedom users have, the less useful the Internet becomes and the less business Google is able to do. Therefore in the long term Google is shooting itself in the foot, not to mention the rest of us who are betrayed by this huge corporation which we allowed to grow in hopes that it stays true to its roots and customers.

It is therefore our responsibility to take back control at this crucial point in time by regulating the responsibilities of companies such as Google to ensure that such companies can not and will not undermine our freedoms by conspiring with totalitarian regimes. If we fail to act, we will quickly find ourselves in a world where censorship and other forms of manipulation spread across Internet like cancer; even our own democratic governments will start abusing it and making up rules that benefit them or their powerful sponsors in the short term, but hurt everyone else. The Internet will become segmented and the quality of information will go down. The likelihood of someone, somewhere, snooping our traffic and using it against us will increase, until we no longer feel safe to state our opinions or share any personal info online. We will become segmented, disconnected, unorganized, going back to the pre-Internet era.