Article note: Some details I hadn't read before in this telling - It's surprising how many parallels there are between early-mwc and early-microsoft's activities.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.