For people looking for some further reading on this subject, there is a well known wikipedia user’s article about this with some history of this problem of unchecked spending:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_Cancer

some other internet knowledge repository’s you should consider donating to:

https://archive.org/about/

https://www.eff.org/about

https://www.law.cornell.edu/lii/about/about_lii