How the CIA made Google
(medium.com)
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u/PatriotTalk1776 a clarifying question, if you will:
If a smart college student get's tapped by the CIA to design a project for them, and gets funding from them, is the project they end up creating a
project?
(same question applies to a project they were already working on but then which later is hinged to CIA & CIA money)
The abstract is to be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150124095748/https://www.utdallas.edu/~bxt043000/Motivational-Articles/Big_Data-Have_we_seen_it_before.pdf
So, again, if the government is funding and steering a private citizen's project, is that project public or private?
Perhaps the article's title is (purposefully?) inflammatory, hyperbolic, and lacks proper nuance. In essence, Google, as we know it today, was created by the government.
What's your take on my question? What class is the project to be placed into?
To me, regarding the big tech companies, it's a distinction without a difference. The level of government influence over them is hard to quantify but armed with that Q post (+others), +looking at the way these companies behave, one may easily deduce that they are in fact arms of the government. What's your answer to the question? How do you break it down?
I see no reason why they shouldn't be classified as public utilities.
https://web.archive.org/web/20180115190219/http://db.cs.pitt.edu/idm/reports/1998/9631952.html
found at https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance