content: Since when does a private company start trying to control public political opinion?   Since the invention of private companies and this is one of the great dangers of laissez-faire with a powerfull state: the state gets subverted by (((moneyed interests))). With revolving door politics, you make much more money subverting the political process than you do trying to convince the plebs to buy your product. And then dumb people come along and suggest that the solution to a disease is to kill the patient.