And to what end does discouraging scaling in an industrial economy serve? Corporations don't grow huge for the fun of it.

After certain size benefits of hyperscale do not compensate for the harm done to society.

Spamming can be found by metadata and reports. There is no "this site is absolute crap" button for them to find useful feedback in searches.

They've had 20+ years to add one.

Add? They have one. Click on the three dots next to the URL then "Feedback" -> "Something else" -> "Spammy content".

Something like this has existed as long as I can remember. The three dots used to be a down arrow in the same place.

Even better then.

Ah it is amazing how crimes just materalize from nowhere from envy.

Amazing how they appear when money is involved. Let’s talk bout AI intellectual property theft on a scale never seen before in human history, or Uber operating illegally until they were able to coerce permission, or the open collusion of robber barons in the guilded age, or the opium wars.

Or slavery and the history of the new world. Let’s talk about that.

Idée fixe that AI is axiomatically bad.

To be frank that sounds batshit insane levels of spite. You were going to try to promote the general production of knowledge but now because you worry someone you dislike who you don't even know.might benefit from it you aren't?

Because you are talking about a cartoon version of a billionaire that doesn't exist outside your propaganda-addled head, doesn't have the power you imagine them to, nor the malice you ascribe to them.

US consumers are more valuable which makes their data more valuable and therefore collected. It applies to other first world nations without robust enough data protections.

They got trained to said assumptions by bad sensationalist 'science journalism'. Remember how power lines caused brain damage in children? Not through the magnetic fields or anything like that, but the lowered property values.

Also it is just plain transparent projection. I will point out only one ideology outright killed entire classes of people once they were considered 'no longer useful' and that wasn't capitalism, it was communism. And this "capitalists will kill you all if you don't rise up!" propaganda is crusty and old, back since the emergence of computers and the discipline of cybernetics in the classical sense of the word.