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Not everything is a “power structure”. Some people actually like to get shit done and organizations are a means to that end.


If you get a million people together, you'll get a million different ways to "get shit done". Deciding which ways to do things and who does what is a power structure.

Add in billions of dollars in quarterly revenue, and you have a power structure that will willingly integrate itself with the state to preserve those cash flows.

This is why iMessage is backdoored and isn't really e2ee.




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