At this point in SV history, harkening back to what a founder said as an anonymous PhD in his pre-billionaire 20s, sounds a lot like when people talk about "what the Founding Fathers wanted".
Nothing is set in stone, and the world is very different from the Web 1.0 era in which Google formed.
Your comment and parent’s look aligned to me. He’s saying it went down the drain, and you posit things do change and we shouldn’t expect current Google to be aiming at benevolence and ethicality.
Nothing is set in stone, and the world is very different from the Web 1.0 era in which Google formed.