"[...] Are you comfortable with the government partnering covertly with media organizations, search engines, social networking, so they can bring change that the Washington elites have designed?
Didn't he just describe Fox News? That is what they do over at Fox News, is it not?
the place vital engineers wanted to work
Leave Google to go work on PHP spaghetti code? Puhleese.
Maybe people have left Google, but show us the numbers. I highly doubt they went to FACEBOOK.
better off globally with smaller countries and more power given to local authorities
Yes, we call these "states". They each can have their own laws, too.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.