The internet, one of the world's most powerful emerging resources, is largely routed through and controlled by US companies. It seems trivially obvious (in hin

The internet, one of the world's most powerful emerging resources, is largely routed through and controlled by US companies. It seems trivially obvious (in hindsight) that intelligence agencies would seek to leverage this to further US interests globally. One might argue that this is what the intelligence agencies were created for... (as a non-US citizen, I'm not praising or defending this state of affairs, but instead I recognise this as the nature of things)