It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users.
Some, as we've learned, fight and lose. Others cooperate, either out of patriotism or because they believe it's easier that way.

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