Maybe not.
But his post indicated he doesn't have the slightest idea of a search engine's role in the internet ecosystem.
The fact is, if you put something out there, and a search engine indexes it, you have received a free service! If anything, you are beholden to the search engine, not the other way around!
In any case, the First Amendment grants Google and all other comers, foreign and domestic, the right to index the internet without having to pay lawyers $$$!!!
Of late, the biggest complaint against Google has been that sites previously highly ranked in search engine results have dropped down, resulting in ruination for the site owners, who depended on people finding their sites by searching. This appears mostly to be collateral damage resulting from Google's imperfect efforts to curtail spammers, who try to interpose their worthless pages into the results in order to rake off clicks from bewildered search engine users. I'm behind Google in this, because, being an especially lazy search engine user, I find it annoying to search for something and then have to manually filter through the garbage hits.
But the irony is, we have parties aggrieved because Google didn't index them high enough for free, not that Google didn't pay them for the privilege of indexing them! LOL!
Google's results sort is the very essence of their value. Since Google first launched there have been untold efforts by indexed companies to gain a higher position in results searches relevant to their offering.
Google provides maximum value to the customer and advertisers by attaching the ad to the best context. Delivering that context is an ever evolving piece of functionality (proprietary algorithms) for them.