"Multinational corporations and governments may seem fair game, but what about private citizens?" The irony here is that the "private citizen" in question ran

"Multinational corporations and governments may seem fair game, but what about private citizens?" The irony here is that the "private citizen" in question ran a company which specialized in facilitating illegal collusion between multinational corporations and governments to attack - yes - private citizens. And unlike Arron "sweaty ballsack of caterpillars" Barr, the people his firm set out to smear (e.g. Glen Greenwald) were targeted for having made effective use of Constitutionally protected liberty. Barr, on the other hand, was singularly focused on undermining that liberty for commercial gain. So yes, fair game in spades. Assuming, of course, that you think this is just a game. Happily, the Atlantic concludes that - so far - their effect has been "nothing more than regulatory." Yay for sanity.