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thxpk 1 point ago +2 / -1

Do you?

It's not exactly secret:

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/

The CIA and NSA funded an unclassified, compartmentalized program designed from its inception to spur something that looks almost exactly like Google.

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americandrunk [S] -1 points ago +1 / -2

So? It's a service contract. CIA, NSA, FBI buy shit from Boeing, Northrop and all kinds of places.

Does the government get to take over Boeing? Northrop?

Your fucking HYDRO and ELECTRICITY are directly subsidized by government contracts, grants and r&d including huge amounts of research into nuclear and more recently fusion (hopefully that comes up soon as a positive). Does the government get to make your fucking house a public commodity?

DARPA paid for the invention of the internet that you are using now including most of the technologies it runs on (unix, fibreoptics, et al). ALL FINANCED BY GOVERNEMENT RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS.

Does the governement get to take that too?

You are a fucking communist. Your head is stuck so far up your arse you can't tell what is a grant, what is a support contract nor do you have any clue what it means to have a business, get some grants, win some contracts, make contacts, build relationships, sell some stuff.

Ever own a business? Ever do business with government? How'd that work out for you?

Because, if you did business with a western government, it went pretty fucking well for you BECAUSE THEY RESPECT PROPERTY RIGHTS ENSHRINED INTO THE CORE OF WESTERN CIVILIATION.

You utter fucking moron.

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thxpk 0 points ago +1 / -1

You really need help.

No one is going to take them over, but to think they are not heavily involved and protected by the government is idiotic.

Now run along fascist

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americandrunk [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Govenment is heavily involved in the internet, they 100% invented it .. so fucking what?

You are NOT going to be propagating communist bullshit here. I am riding this fucking thread to the end.

Property rights exist. If you want your property right, your right for the government to not be able to expropriate those rights, you must protect those rights.

Property rights, like free speech rights, must be fought and protected for all because if your enemey has no property rights, pretty soon you won't either.

You fucking communist.

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thxpk 0 points ago +1 / -1

You fucking communist.

You're really not too bright are you, you're the one defending the current involvement of government in big tech and want to protect it.

Letting the government control your life...that's literally communism.