The whole globe...

Or dystopian sci-fi writers understood the possible ramifications of increasingly powerful corporations, abundant surveillance tech, and manipulable information networks, and wrote their works to warn the world “hey, this hasn’t happened yet but it totally could so, you know, don’t let it”. And we all nodded and said “yep, that sounds super bad, sure would be bad if that happened lol” and now we’re all shocked to see it unfolding.

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Add “tech companies” alongside the “governments”!

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