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Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple were all participants in the NSA's PRISM surveillance program that Edward Snowden disclosed:

> only their shitloads of money allow them to resist government demands to hack a user's phone

Their extreme centralization makes it much easier for the government to make those demands. I think you're more right than wrong, though.

Government changes, at least every eight years.

The fiefdoms of AFGAM are there for pretty much life.