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As someone who currently has a large portion of the Internet blocked - NO. You do NOT want that. This has awful implications and is very much a slippery slope. A lot of necessary info and contacts are on Google - is this bad? Yeah, absolutely, but right now losing access to Google would mean losing access to this information. While blocking the addresses of such a big company, you'd inevitably break unexpected parts of the Internet as collateral. If the people want to use the service - a lot out of habit, a lot because there aren't alternatives suitable for them - they would use proxies or VPNs (and in my experience - often opening themselves to risk in the process, because they'd go with a random free VPN from Play Store). It is very possible they'd go after the censorship evasion protocols next.
If you really want bans - maybe banning the companies from buying ads, or using Google's tools for business would be fine. But NOT fragmenting the Web further and strengthening the censorship infrastructure.