The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.
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By the end of 2016, Google’s Android was installed on 82 percent of all new smartphones sold around the world, with over 1.5 billion Android users globally. At the same time, Google handled billions of searches and YouTube plays daily and had a billion active Gmail users, which meant it had access to most of the world’s emails. Some analysts estimate that 25 percent of all Internet traffic in North America goes through Google servers. The company isn’t just connected to the Internet, it is the Internet.
— Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet Yasha Levine
