[pluc]

It's one thing to spy on your population/users, it's another to spy on your clients.

You can go all authoritarian fascist if that's what floats your boat, but at least don't backstab people who buy shit from you.

Can't you be repressive and professional?!

[d5lt5]

3 entries in the list above did exactly that more than a decade ago. My point is that the US tech is not in a process, they were at the frontier long before everyone else.