Those "private businesses" have been acting as extensions of the government, using their alleged privateness to help politicians bypass limits on governmental power.
Facebook is really DARPA LifeLog, for one thing. The Snowden leaks revealed that Big Tech is really a Federal intelligence operation. Then we saw a non-government-aligned social media company get taken down because a Senator asked that it be taken down.
Those "private businesses" have been acting as extensions of the government, using their alleged privateness to help politicians bypass limits on governmental power.
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Facebook is really DARPA LifeLog, for one thing. The Snowden leaks revealed that Big Tech is really a Federal intelligence operation. Then we saw a non-government-aligned social media company get taken down because a Senator asked that it be taken down.