Considering Google's origins and early backers, this shouldn't come as much of a shock to anyone: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia

Considering Google's origins and early backers, this shouldn't come as much of a shock to anyone: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci... The military industrial complex created the internet, and has funded many of the big players in Silicon Valley. Their goal was never an open and free internet.