I think you went off the rails to quickly potentially.

He's referring to places like Google or Microsoft having to back out of deals regularly with countries and US agencies after employee backlash.

It seems like now days the backlash is indeed smaller and the heads of said companies are willing to move forward anyway.

That is a significant change from the past.

Values relating to mistrust of the military (as per the context of the post I responded to) as well as values relating to ownership of the tech you bought and of personal privacy.

Get off your high horse and stop talking down to a person you don't know. Take your anger out on someone else.

Jobs the Marketer! You want to lump Jobs in with Ellison because he had the gall to purchase advertising for his products?

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