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>Nobody predicted a private company would get to that point
Not quite, the East India Company is a counter example.
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The example of the EIC was used as an argument against the British Crown by proponents of American independence. Source: Dalrymple's The Anarchy.
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The East India Company was processing (and reading) the mail of hundreds of millions of people, and freely choosing who is allowed to continue sending mail?
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Not quite, the East India Company is a counter example.