The governments will simply step up their particular set of sticks and carrots to compel companies to be incentivized to not do those kinds of things. What, di

The governments will simply step up their particular set of sticks and carrots to compel companies to be incentivized to not do those kinds of things. What, did you, the cattle, think you could revolt against your rancher masters with impunity forever? What do you think Google will say and do if the Government suggests giving preferences and lavish benefits to Microsoft or vice versa? The only thing that really can be done is getting politically involved. Politics, elections, transparency, combating corruption, digital activism, etc. are all the only way that this will ever be prevented from metastasizing into something far more devious and nefarious. I hate to say it, but the only solution is suffocating and starving our own governments into submission. We have bred a bred beasts and they are fed with endless and unrestrained taxing power, reality is that we really need to implement what Republicans pay lip service to .... actually cutting taxes. Cut, cut, cut, taxes; limit the tax money to a set amount which then forces the government to have to prioritize, that includes for the military. We have a sleeping demon on our hands with the current surveillance government, which is directly a result of the plundering bonanza of unlimited and unfettered funding for militarism under the guise of security and freedom from boogiemen we create.