[ryandrake]

The inability to use force doesn't make corporate power any less powerful--it only makes it a different kind of power. Yes, BigTech cannot arrest me or throw me in jail, but that doesn't mean that they don't wield other kinds of enormous power over my day-to-day life.

And unlike my (technically democratically elected government), corporations do not have to answer to the people they exert their power over.

[kube-system]

I'm not trying to say that big tech doesn't have any sort of power at all that significant, of course they do. They certainly have a lot of control over information and how it shared. But I think that is unequivocally a lesser power than being able to imprison someone or put them to death. The fact that some small number of government officials are elected might be a rationale for that power, but it doesn't decrease it in any way.

[int_19h]

The problem is that, with enough money, you can buy the people who have the power to imprison someone or worse.