the problem that google, facebook, etc have, i believe, is with edward snowden, not the nsa. i think they've been satisfied to put their nsa bureaus in the basement, call them software engineers or something, and feed all of us into the state machine. the problem is, now we know about it, and they seem to think it irritates people. the only possibility they actually have of not providing all data to the state would be extreme encryption technology, which the government is going to be illegalizing. so here's what i really do suggest. larry page or zuckerberg might not completely grasp this, but they have the resources to raise an army and attack that monster facility in nevada. short of that, larry page and mark zuckerberg might as well be cia agents.
or actually: what if google really spent the next year trying to bring the nsa to its knees? imagine the effectiveness of google as a hacker, google as anonymous. google probably has as much in the way of potential blackmail equipment as does the nsa, and the world's most deserving victims to whom to apply it.
right now, if he knows what's good for him, or how to survive, larry page is assembling all those thousands of times that four-star general keith b. alexander has searched for porn featuring lactating shemale dominatrices and english sheep dogs into a nice document. look at his texts: the 'man' is literally begging to be constrained, dominated, abused, injured, scourged. true, general alexander is likely to fire back in kind in his habitual fashion. how else does 'he' control congress? well, you know, extortion is a harsh mistress, but from the point of view of the audience it will all make for excellent entertainment.
in his heart, larry page knows what the right side is. he could launch viruses and cyber-attacks into the total information awareness program that would make your heart flutter, and leave our oppressors with low self-esteem, and us with a trace of freedom.they are hacking you, larry. they are using you. they are making your company an agent of state oppression, annexing you to the emerging totalitarian vision.
i have a funny feeling that google has much, much better people than does the nsa. obviously, any decent sort of person would rather be at google performing useful public services than at the nsa, continuously betraying every single principle this country was founded on, for less $$$. one assumes that google has some black ops squads, and they should no more be capitulating to the government of the united states than they should be capitulating to the basically similar government of china. both regimes are extreme information repressers, which is maximally incompatible with the, um, mission statements of these corps, who regard themselves as bastions of information freedom, openness, the communicative capacities of the internet. understand, mark, that the nsa has turned you into an agent in a scheme to monoplize world information. you will not survive as a business in that environment. it's life or death, certainly for anything that was ever your soul. so, launch. don't be evil.
