I remember how in one grim movie about drug cartels, the main character said that we, the military, support the Medellin cartel, instead of fighting it, because

I remember how in one grim movie about drug cartels, the main character said that we, the military, support the Medellin cartel, instead of fighting it, because it's an order we can control, unlike a swarm of small cartels popping up here and there. The gov would have difficulties censoring speech if big tech was a thousand smaller firms.