• meathappening@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 hours

    All of these guys benefit from government involvement early on. Elon went to Russia to buy rockets for SpaceX with the man who would immediately thereafter become the head of NASA. Facebook was started with outside investment from Thiel, who himself was the beneficiary of In-Q-Tel funding. The project that became Google Earth was also funded by In-Q-Tel.

    Bootstraps my ass, and frankly, they’re all probably assets as well. It’s not hard to look at FB/Google/any number of tech companies and conclude that they collect information the government would like but politically can’t hold, but is able to obtain via national security warrants with little to no oversight.