I do think the unaccountable private bureaucracies of Google/Facebook/Twitter are preferable to US government regulation of web traffic and search results.I'm inclined to agree and I'd add that no other government, including our own, would be preferable either. There's something relatively pure about the quest for filthy lucre -- I trust that more than I trust a government with political goals.
I guess I just have a very different perception of the world. I trust huge corporations less than any other group I can think of. Governments are bad, but not nearly as bad as private corporations, in my view.
And despite what doomsayers may insist, Google does have competition. If you don't trust them, for this or any other reason, try DuckDuckGo.
Yes, I've been using DDG as my main search engine for 3 or 4 years now. They say they don't track you, but I'm not sure I believe them.
The lingering problem, of course, is that even if you take your searching elsewhere, other people might not, and then heaven forbid they'll never be "woke" by RT's awesome truth machine.
When they came for RT, I said nothing, because I considered it Russian propaganda.
