ISPs are not Google-scale. Comcast's damage to society is unlikely to extend beyond the United States, and US politics is prone to change every four years anyways. (Also note that Google is expected to take the #1 lobbying spending spot away from Comcast this year.) Google is a worldwide threat, that not only is evil, but is much better at hiding how evil they are.
Consider the fact that Google is, bare minimum, as evil as Comcast. But if you grab a handful of people and ask what their opinions of each company is, they will be vastly different. The fact that Google is so good at manipulating the press, as seen in this very story, is why they are such a massive threat.
That's right. ISPs have regional monopolies. Google competes on a global scale.
Google's biggest competitor may be Baidu and China.
> Consider the fact that Google is, bare minimum, as evil as Comcast
No way. There is tons of evidence of Comcast acting evilly. They constantly underperform in their quality of service and costs. Google outperforms. You just feel they are evil because of their success.
Google has gone to great lengths to give back to the world on whose infrastructure it was built. They give tons of services for free to non profits [1], they publish a lot of their most innovative research, and they use patents for defense rather than offense. That's just naming a few things. Comcast does none of this. They just hold out their hands for more money without providing additional value.
There is a massive amount of evidence of Google acting evilly... Despite how much of it they manage to cover up.
They collect patents because patents are good for threatening competitors like any good corporation does. Google even has a patent shakedown scheme to get startups to pay to license their patents.
They give away free services sometimes because its good PR. So do ISPs.
Heck, in terms of charitable giving, Google is batting a zero against Verizon this week. They initially offered to match some employee donations up to $250,000 for hurricane Harvey relief, added a straight $250,000 donation on top of that, and later did another matching thing to bring it up over like a million.
...Verizon, a company we can all agree is evil as sin itself... Straight up pledged ten million dollars for hurricane relief with no strings about needing matching donations attached. Makes Google's gesture seem like a footnote.
The difference in evillness between Google and ISPs is simple: Google also suppresses the media.
Your defense of Google hinges on them "giving back", including giving "tons of services for free", etc. You seem to equate charity as a key part of "goodness". My point is merely that donations are PR move, and Google's isn't even that impressive considering their peers.
(Especially when you consider that today Michael Dell offered up $36 million... and Google is still in that $1 million range.)
http://paxlicense.org/ is a great example of how Google uses patents as a latent threat. It's "open to anyone", but requires you be shipping Google's proprietary malware on your Android devices to qualify.
You might also note that things like Samsung moving closer to stock Android was coupled with the announcement of a Google patent agreement. While Google's terms with different companies are strictly confidential as part of the terms (Microsoft's patent extortion only became public because some parties refused to pay), they operate very much in the same space.
Consider the fact that Google is, bare minimum, as evil as Comcast. But if you grab a handful of people and ask what their opinions of each company is, they will be vastly different. The fact that Google is so good at manipulating the press, as seen in this very story, is why they are such a massive threat.