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and people called me crazy for warning you all that it is operated by the CIA


CIA does invest in companies - Google got funds from them when it was a startup. But the US intelligence services no longer needs to "own" or "operate" any computer tech company in the US. US laws allows them to ask for any information they want under "National Security", and US citizens / companies operating in the US cannot refuse. I also remember reading that they can also force access to any data centre to place and connect their own devices / servers and do whatever they want with the data they collect.

- What It’s Like to Get a National-Security Letter: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-its...

- Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-di...

- PRISM: Here's how the NSA wiretapped the Internet: https://www.zdnet.com/article/prism-heres-how-the-nsa-wireta...


Are you crazy?

Just asking, it's ok to be crazy. Admitting it is the first step to enlightenment. We're all a little crazy in one or more ways.


Er. Because there's no evidence of that, including on this page?




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