Early on the major war factions were between the proprietary software companies moving in on open source software. Or fencing open software kernels like the powerful Linux with proprietary software. Privatizing the Internet began in the 90's, I think? The Linux kernel is STILL the core OS kernel of Microsoft, Google and other big name proprietary tech companies.
If you're concerned about surveillance capitalism, I wonder if you've read this.
It's the definitive analysis. Zuboff is a genius. She shows why Google was evil, along with so many other capitalist tech systems. At the time we hadn't a whiff of that until later when Ed Snowden (his book, Permanent Record, is excellent) and Glenn Greenwald blew up the inside scoop on capitalist services the NSA offered to globalists, and probably still does... which is why Putin's to-do list for the felon is to hobble three letter agencies, so his hacker groups can have free rein.
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