Here are many things Google needs to stop, if it intends not to "be evil".

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• Google supports the TPP because of three mostly-evil provisions that would benefit Google.

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Nonfree software required

A nonfree program submits the users to the power of the program's developer. This is an injustice to the user. Alas, most Google services require running nonfree code.

• Even making a Google account requires running nonfree software (Javascript sent by the site).
• Google Groups and Google+ Communities require the use of nonfree Javascript software, so please don't host your discussions there.
• Google Docs requires nonfree Javascript code to edit a document, or even to look at one with the usual URL. It may be possible to merely look at some kinds of documents without running the nonfree Javascript code, through a different URL, but I don't know.
• Around 2011, Google Maps worked without running Javascript code. Then something broke: the page worked fine except that the map did not appear.

  Nowadays, nothing whatsoever appears if Javascript is disabled.

• Youtube requires nonfree software (Javascript code) for normal use of the site, so it is not a good way to distribute video. (Most sites specifically for video distribution have the same problem, and some free browsers are starting to come with free code to work around the problem.)
• In general, most Google services require running nonfree Javascript code. If you refuse to do this (for instance, by running LibreJS), you'll see that you should not use those services.
• Google censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker, saying that blocking ads is "interference" with the sites that advertise (and surveil users through ads).

  The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree program gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.

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Surveillance

To identify yourself to a Google service is a grave error.

• Gmail was planned from the start as a massive surveillance system, to make psychological profiles not only of Gmail users but of everyone who sends mail to Gmail users.
• Google quietly combined its ad-tracking profiles with its browsing profiles.

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Terms of Service

• Google cuts off accounts for users that resell Pixel phones. They lose access to all of their mail and documents stored in Google servers under that account.

  It should be illegal to put any "terms of service" on a physical product. It should also be illegal to close an account on a service without letting the user download whatever was stored there.

  These events provide another reason why schools must never ask a student to use a service account linked to the student's name.

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Censorship

• French blogger Claims YouTube Tried to Censor Juncker Interview.
• Google has agreed to perform special censorship of Youtube for the government of Pakistan, deleting views that the state opposes.

  This will help the illiberal Pakistani state suppress dissent.

• Youtube's "content ID" automatically deletes posted videos in a way copyright law does not require.
• YouTube has made private deals with the copyright industry to censor works that are fair use.

  More information.

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