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There is a history of large companies helping the US government, and they’re not all defense contractors.

Why are they surprised? Google is the Bell Labs of our time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_100_Contractors_of_the_U.S...

The word used is “outraged” and not “surprised” though. I think that’s more than just a semantic point. In fact there is no mention of surprise in the article. I think that’s a reasonable reaction, whereas surprise is a straw man, largely implying a naïveté which is notably absent in the article.

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