After the Civil War, many reformers noted that corporations and trusts were limiting human freedom. This lead to the Progressive Era and the New Deal reforms that sought to balance their power with the state.
Today, we live in a New Gilded Age and we are increasingly ceding our liberty to corporations. We allow Google and Amazon to wiretap our homes and track our online selves. We give up privacy for the sake of convenience. And then some company loses our data and we scramble to adapt.
There's a coming catastrophe in privacy rights. Again, referring to Madison: Where the ability to do wrong exists, wrong will be done. Someone will take this too far.
Hopefully we will be awake enough to the dangers and hopefully we will have leadership that is awake enough to our demands.
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