http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-fo...
"The government has a lot of leverage," including contracts and licenses, said a representative for an Internet company. "There is a lot of pressure from them. Nobody is willingly going into this."
The reciprocal, my Internet company will spy on my users in exchange for a government contract, wouldn't be called leverage, it'd be called corruption.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-fo... "The government has a lot of leverage," including contracts and licenses, said a representative for an Internet company. "There is a lot of pressure from them. Nobody is willingly going into this."