"It's time we called the government's actions what they really are: commandeering. Commandeering is a practice we're used to in wartime, where commercial ships

"It's time we called the government's actions what they really are: commandeering. Commandeering is a practice we're used to in wartime, where commercial ships are taken for military use, or production lines are converted to military production. But now it's happening in peacetime. Vast swaths of the Internet are being commandeered to support this surveillance state." This is an exceedingly well-framed point. Just because it's information and not "stuff" doesn't make it not commandeering. If you're a communications company, reputational damage and other indirect costs have real value, i.e. indirectly intercheangable with money, beyond just the costs of directly complying. It's commandeering.