The much maligned “Trusted Computing” idea requires that the party you are supposed to trust deserves to be trusted, and Google is DEFINITELY NOT worthy of being trusted, this is a naked power grab to destroy the open web for Google’s ad profits no matter the consequences, this would put heavy surveillance in Google’s hands, this would eliminate ad-blocking, this would break any and all accessibility features, this would obliterate any competing platform, this is very much opposed to what the web is.
It’s time for Alphabet to be broken up into separate letters.
Or have some letters removed all together.
Pretty much the entire US needs a healthy dose of monopoly busting.
Hell, just look at the Ma Bell breakup and the path all of those companies took to where they are now. We’re basically back to step 1.