>> What I’m mostly referring to are the laws that enable autonomy of business In practice big corporations bow to gov demands (i.e apple, microsoft etc via PRI

>> What I’m mostly referring to are the laws that enable autonomy of business In practice big corporations bow to gov demands (i.e apple, microsoft etc via PRISM) as they value their relationship with the government. The small companies don't have the resources to fight the gov (i.e NSA). You may see some smokescreen(i.e that Apple iphone vs FBI) but it's not the first time we see that ki d of stuff/PR. The only thi g you may trust is e2e encryption and open source