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[–] Rockfish1000 0 points 12 points (+12|-0) ago 

For the gazillionth time. They are NOT private entities. They either started with government money or they operate with government consent. They do the stuff the government can't because of that pesky constitution and what not.

[–] NACHTJAGD 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Many received series A funding from In-Q-Tel [CIA], sometimes even direct investments. The DHS has a similar program under the office of the DIA. Lifelog was funded this way, and canceled once zuckerburg entered the fray with his project Facebook that when it was shown and intended for an internal university intranet social site was far worse then MySpace or CU2, yet somehow was able to hire hundreds of developers. They backed Facebook with billions.

These people aren't home made, they didn't start out in a garage or a bedroom, they aren't special, they connected directly with top officials and got the investment of a lifetime to exponentially grow a business. But with this liquidity capital comes requirements from the government which is kept hush hush under the NSA secrecy letters, which is merely a one sided notice informing the business of said secrecy clauses subject to criminal law if exposed, which is the cover for how these intelligence agencies are in their networks and likely mirroring all the traffic.