> hundreds of corporations lobbying the US government to stop And then if the government say that they stopped, how can you ever be sure they did? Unless we u

> hundreds of corporations lobbying the US government to stop And then if the government say that they stopped, how can you ever be sure they did? Unless we use free (as in freedom) software, open encrypted communication protocols, and decentralized network services, we are trusting too much of our computing and communication to third parties, which are subject to political powers, that always do whatever they can to protect themselves. The government should not be trusted, it must be controlled. Corporations should not be trusted either.