That's a pretty interesting fact you dropped on me, will have to give it a deeper read through lately but I would NEVER put anything past government and corporate collusion to achieve said goals. The US loves to speak about capitalism but its anything but its more like corporate socialism.

I really liked projects that are trying to do that like Golem, Sia, Storaj, Substratum (looks to have gone bust from BS and mismanagement) and STEEM. I'm pretty much radio silent on traditional social media but I still use Google for work but I do Swap out to Bing and DDG just to compare results

!COFFEEA 1 and !ENGAGE 50