This why I'm not comfortable with the idea of companies getting paid for this, and actually being profitable for them to do it. If it wasn't sustainable for a c

This why I'm not comfortable with the idea of companies getting paid for this, and actually being profitable for them to do it. If it wasn't sustainable for a company to give so much data to the NSA, they would protest a lot louder about it. Remember how hard Google fought against SOPA, because SOPA would've been very unsustainable for them, and it would've even put Youtube in danger of being shut down. Being paid, combined with them getting immunity for this sort of stuff just makes the companies a whole lot more complacent about it, and much more likely to agree to giving them all the data they need, knowing that almost nothing can happen to them,as long the process is kept secret - and they probably didn't worry too much about that, because secrecy is NSA's job. Now, when are we going to create backlash against the ISP's and carriers for allowing NSA to scoop up most of the web's traffic? Almost nobody is mentioning them in these stories, even though they play an even bigger role than the companies listed in PRISM.