author: Bruce Sterling
content: "And, yeah, by the way, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Google et al, they are all\
  \ the blood brothers of Huawei in China\u2014because they are intelligence assets\
  \ posing as commercial operations. They are surveillance marketers. They give you\
  \ free stuff in order to spy on you and pass that info along the value chain. Personal\
  \ computers can have users, but social media has livestock."
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