They were never really in charge. They are the front story. This worked in less trying times, but now they’re being exposed as mere puppets. They get rich, but they carry the can. Remember that the technology was always intended to be used against us.
Nothing new about that, anon. It’s part and parcel of a legal system based on case precedents. The problem is the judiciary, activism, and the compromised legal training in law schools. Common law worked for 1000 years. We have allowed its principles to become utterly corrupted.