Do Be Evil

Your challenge is to make other internet company that is not Google to dominate web search and any other technology fields they can, while being as user-unfriendly, privacy infringing, option lacking, pay needing and overall moustache-twirlingly evil as possible.
 
Well the obvious solution I can think of is to have it be a foreign company with their sites and servers located in a country with seriously laxer data protection laws, enforcement and much less incentive to worry about human rights or the like. Combine it with much tighter/more restrictive international copyright and patent laws so that they can block the emergence of any potential competitors that could provide an equivalent service and people would probably be lazy enough to stick with the one that gives them better results.
 
Well the obvious solution I can think of is to have it be a foreign company with their sites and servers located in a country with seriously laxer data protection laws, enforcement and much less incentive to worry about human rights or the like. Combine it with much tighter/more restrictive international copyright and patent laws so that they can block the emergence of any potential competitors that could provide an equivalent service and people would probably be lazy enough to stick with the one that gives them better results.

AKA the chinese government? With its hackers and firewalls made locally?
 
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