About that "Snowden Saga" which wasn't any kind of different from the reality rather than subjective worldview enforced to be viewed as a reality — I strictly assume it is only and was about the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy which is during my reading I formulated as "Gather critical mass, Isolate, and Boil", in a way exactly similar to boiling live crawfishes.
Accidentally found your site while searching for something online and I'm really glad I did. Perhaps the most sobering material on the state of the 2020s internet I've ever read. Learning that the EFF has actually been an agent of Big Tech is a real gut-punch, but it makes a ton of sense