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I think an important thing is also using companies as foreign tools. The nsa would hate to see Google or Facebook broken up and supplanted everywhere by local c
by thatguy0900 6y ago
I think an important thing is also using companies as foreign tools. The nsa would hate to see Google or Facebook broken up and supplanted everywhere by local companies. Or, worse, supplanted by a equally large Chinese monopoly.
- HDMI_Cable 6y agoThat can be simplified even further, the NSA doesn't care about Google, Facebook, or any other specific companies, just the ability to extract data from them. They would truly hate if the Third Party Doctrine were overturned.[1] --- [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
- aerosmile 6y agoI think we should all hate to see the latter. Unfortunately, it's already happening with TikTok, and with the rate of innovation in China, we'll see many more.
- FridayoLeary 6y agoUnfortunately, I don't think that influence from NSA has had much to do with the reluctance of legislators to limit Big Corporations
- thatguy0900 6y agoI don't know, they're not fools. I'm sure they have intelligence workers in their ear telling them about Baidu, and the power effectively owning the internet gives the US.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y agoPerhaps if these companies were not such illegally large monopolies then they would have less perceived value as "foreign tools".