[fragmede]

You missed the part where the Qwest refused to participate in illegal surveillance and the NSA destroyed the company for it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/10/qwest-ceo-nsa-punished...

[samstave]

Sorry - Yeah - actually I regret that as I have a humongous amount of /r/conspiracy history in my head - and I forgot that was the real reason.