Tying this into the Paul Krugman post about social media tech giants running the US [1], perhaps it's the US running the tech giants for mass surveilance? Especially of foreigners, of course.
Governments around the world criticise social media and tech giants but they still work with them because they want the concentration of power to enable surveillance.
Of course. And it's not just surveillance, it's censorship and narrative shaping -- doing a convenient end-run around the first amendment's prohibition on government infringing speech.
Governments around the world criticise social media and tech giants but they still work with them because they want the concentration of power to enable surveillance.