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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by praneshp on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:42PM (#16999020)
Isn't that a bit of a jump, and specifically called out in the quartz article as not true?

"Did the CIA directly fund the work of Brin and Page, and therefore create Google? No."

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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by nitrogen on Saturday May 05, 2018 @12:43AM (#17000364)
You should probably quote the article title too:

"Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance"

The gist I got from skimming it is that the CIA didn't "directly" fund them because that's handled by a differwnt group acting in their interest.

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Re:NSA collected 500M U.S. call records in 2017, a sharp ris... by praneshp on Saturday May 05, 2018 @12:54PM (#17002596)
aka Google was _not_ founded by the CIA
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