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If the Russian government is blackmailing you your are certainly screwed. In US.. well it depends but you could quite easily bring down the people doing this to you with yourself if you chose not to comply. Therefore no rational US government "actor" would engage in something like that outside of extreme circumstances.
I personally don't see much difference between "going down" and "going down together with other people". At least for myself and my family. I'm screwed anyway.
the Linux User Group of Northern Virginia, the suburb of DC with all of the money, used to hold their events at local Palantir office.
lotta Red Hat contracts with the FedGov. And RH commits a lot of code to the kernal and other FOSS projects.