I don't trust either but at least in situations like this, the incentives for me and the private person/company are aligned. I want a quality product, they want

I don't trust either but at least in situations like this, the incentives for me and the private person/company are aligned. I want a quality product, they want me to be happy with the product so I will tell other people about it and they will sell more products or get more downloads. A government organization doesn't have those incentives, their 'success' is not reliant on a quality product. They don't really care is anyone downloads this app. Someone at the FCC is already taking credit for this app being available even if no one uses it. The only incentives government organizations have is to spend money. In fact if a government organization is bad at its job and spends all of its money, it can usually go to Congress and get more money. The sole exercise of most employees in the upper levels of government organizations is to increase their budgets for next year. If you really want to try to understand this way of thinking, I recommend "Anatomy of the State" by Murray Rothbard. You can get a free eBook here: https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state https://mises.org/library/anatomy-state