Google, Facebook, Whatsapp (part of Facebook now), Amazon are all basically spy companies They are 'America's Edge' Let's consider the narrative -> That one

Google, Facebook, Whatsapp (part of Facebook now), Amazon are all basically spy companies They are 'America's Edge' Let's consider the narrative -> That one corner of the world (Silicon Valley) is so good at technology that it produces nearly ALL of the world dominating technology companies * Let's consider another narrative -> While most countries were asleep at the wheel, the US (or some group of people in the US) figured out that the next wave of imperialism would be - technology - data - surveillance And they devoted all their resources to making sure these 'big data collection and surveillance companies' would be American companies * If you remember the example of the spy hardware company in Switzerland that turned out to be owned by the CIA If you remember how US tried to fund a social network app in Cuba but failed to get traction Then does it not make sense that all the things we think are 'accidents' are perfectly reasonable when considered as a collection of dots that link together Cisco hardware = backdoors Intel chips - backdoors Amazon/Google/Facebook - data collection and surveillance * All the smart countries are gradually ditching Facebook and Google If you look at actual innovation, there is now lots of great stuff coming out of Europe. China, etc US seems completely focused on A) data surveillance companies B) advertising tech C) 'Outspend everyone else to become market leader' type companies