[scarface74]

Can any of these companies arrest me because I “fit the description” or take away my life and liberty? It’s a fact that because of the way that the US is setup between the electoral college, two senators per state and gerrymandering it’s not “majority rule”. This isn’t political. It’s the Constitution as designed.

Until tech companies can take away property via imminent domain, money via civil forfeiture, or put me in jail, they are not anything like the government.

[throwawaysea]

They are more powerful than governments because they can influence all those things by propagandizing the public to shape their opinion.

[Mary-Jane]

Poppycock!

A. Private companies cannot force you to do a single thing! Governments have entire agencies and departments dedicated to keeping people they deem dangerous in line, using a list of powers up to and including the right to take their citizens lives, if they do choose. No private company has this kind of power! Not even close!

B. People are not empty vessels, free to be molded by wiley corporate villains. People possess values and opinions, and (much to the chagrin of both corporations and politicians) it is very difficult to change people's minds.