He might have been personally a bit prickly. But, I thought he was exactly right: Ask questions. Look for the catch. If more of us did that, we'd be in a better place. The suggestion that he blindly took the vaccines is just an unfounded inference.

The equivalent with Google would be to ask: 'So, this is all just free? You're not making any money? Oh, the advertisers pay you. So, you get money from advertisers and I suffer no detriment? Oh, you control what I see? But the email is free, right? No catch there? Oh, you get to read all my emails so you can monetize me better with targeted ads? Which of you at Google gets to control what I see? The "algorithms"? Who trains these algorithms? What if I don't like the algorithms controlling what I see? Can I opt out? What if I don't want you reading my email? Can I turn it off? No? What if the government wants to read all my emails? They're private from them, right? No? You just turn them over? What gives you the right to turn over my emails? Oh, the User Agreement makes them your emails. Hmmm.

So, "free" means you get to read all my emails, control what I see, you can kick people off your platform so I can't see them even if that's what I'm looking for, and you'll give all my, sic, your private correspondence to any government that asks?

Thanks, but no thanks.