> Google and Facebook are so big and so closely tied to the government, they might as well be another branch of government. By this logic almost every corporat

> Google and Facebook are so big and so closely tied to the government, they might as well be another branch of government. By this logic almost every corporate out there is a branch of government. Which is trivially provable as being false. > They might not even be financially viable without government deals like PRISM. This is just absurd :-)))) Do you think Nike's ad money are funneled through PRISM?