The business of empire and creating new markets for the wealth class necessitated data gathering and digital outsourcing, creating a feedback loop of wealth and power between the emerging digital behemoths and the federal government. “Domestic security” against hyped terror threats fused the tech monopolies and the government and with growing federal contracts and outsourcing through privatization, the relationship was solidified. The government got the support it needed and the burgeoning oligarchical class got a fresh supply of funding and institutional allegiance.

During the Obama Administration that went into hyperdrive.

Jared Yates Sexton