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Could the big software corporations turn on the government?

3 points by hoodoof 13y ago

Trust in U.S. Internet companies has been destroyed by the spying government. Is it possible that these companies will turn their considerable resources to fighting the government and fighting the secrecy that is destroying the trust customers used to have in them?

dotcoma 13y ago
Don't know. But I can tell you for sure that I'm looking into ways of abandoning ALL the major US web services. I have already quit Google for DuckDuckGo and I am moving from Dropbox to Swiss-made Wuala.com. And that's just the start.
- hoodoof 13y ago
  I really wonder. Are the people who run Google and Microsoft and Apple and Amazon and Oracle and Yahoo all happy and content with this situation or are they hopping mad that the government and the NSA has brought the party to an end? These organisations have VERY deep pockets and if they decide that their businesses are being destroyed by the government, then they are probably in a position to start spending money to change things aren't they?
  - dotcoma 13y ago
    In theory, this could happen. But neither of the two big political parties seem concerned about the NSA, so it's not going to be easy.
    - hoodoof 13y ago
      Political parties magically start to become concerned when the money starts to become concerned.
      - dotcoma 13y ago
        True. Good or bad, it's the magic of capitalism and America after all.
- e3pi 13y ago
  What if Google, others, (re-)incorporated offshore? With it's full stable of services, could have hardened crypto and new net/server/client protocols immune to Eve opening, immune to PRISM participation and surveillance requests. DDG moves offshore, or other foreign search, centers around provable privacy, similar crypto, then onto email, reader, etc all popular Google type services, isn't that where you would park? Possible to monetize requiring provable secure real-time fast hardware crypto, eg, usb dongle. I see it is required to get out of US, to avoid PRISM forced compliance.
  - dotcoma 13y ago
    And... serve the US market from servers based in Canada and Mexico?
lifeisstillgood 13y ago
Guys, please stop. At least five democratic governments, have all conspired with each other to capture everything they could, and keep it as quiet as they could. There is no other place to go, no other place to run ones servers from, no other person or corporation who will solve it for us. We are empowered, free voters, with the ability to organise and change laws. If we want things to change, call your congressman, walk into their office every day and don't ever stop. It's not something someone else will solve for us.
livestyle 13y ago
These companies pay barely any taxes. Wonder why? They are complicit as far I am concerned.