add examples for privately owned companies

stateistheenemy/index.md

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 independently of the value they bring to society, very much like a local mom'n
 pop shop has to comply with the mob demands or face escalating violence.
 
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+## **How does it play out**
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+Let's review some history of such forced (or not) collaboration:
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+
+### Cambridge Analytica and Governments (UK/US, 2010s)
+Cambridge Analytica, a UK private firm legally obtained access to a first layer of facebook users, then, leveraging the broken (perhaps on purpose) privacy model of facebook obtained data from all those users friends and contacts.
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+This data was then used by US and UK politicians for political campaigns.
+
+### AT&T and the NSA (Room 641A – USA, early 2000s)
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+As revealed by Mark Klein, AT&T had installed a secret room (Room 641A) in one of its buildings where the NSA tapped into global internet communications.
+
+### IBM and Nazi Germany (1930s–1940s)
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+IBM, through its German subsidiary Dehomag, provided punch-card technology that was used by the Nazi regime to identify and track Jews and other persecuted groups.
+
+### Fiat and the fascist government of Italy (1920s-1940s)
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+In exchange for outlawing unions, steering investment towards companies owned by friends of the regime and constricting the workers negociating power, Mussolini obtained support from industrialists and companies (such as Fiat)
+This support was through the media, the forced indoctrination of workers, privately funded government propaganda and militaristic developments those organizations wouldn't have undertaken without such influence.
+
 # **Why Do People Mistakenly Trust the State?**
 
 Here's a valid question: Why do people trust the state? There isn't just one
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 ![meme - this isn't a democracy anymore - it's a dictatorship](dictatorship.png)
 
 *The book **"The Origins of Totalitarianism"** by Hannah Arendt describes this process.*
-*Arendt's seminal work discusses how totalitarian systems rise and how they can emerge even in societies that consider themselves democratic. She explores the dangers of concentration of power, mass surveillance, and the suppression of dissent, pointing out that many democracies have the same authoritarian tendencies that dictatorships do, especially when leaders use populist rhetoric and media manipulation to consolidate power.*
+*Arendt's seminal work discusses how totalitarian systems rise and how they can emerge even in societies that consider themselves democratic. She explores the dangers of concentration of power, mass surveillance, and the suppression of dissent, pointing out that many democracies have the same authoritarian tendencies that dictatorships do, especially when leaders use populist rhetoric and media manipulation to consolidate power.*