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by Retra 3992 days ago
Yes, organizations have more power and importance than individuals. This has been true everywhere throughout most of human history.
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Which is why allowing them to undertake acts of civil disobedience is just letting in the Visigoths.

If money and power is allowed to buy a company greater ability to ignore the law than an individual human citizen... We all may as well call it a day, write the entire system off and start thinking about how the next one should work. Unless I see a counter example of say Google or Apple ignoring a stupid encryption must have back doors type law then we have zero examples of corporations ignoring the law for good... Vs hundreds of examples of them ignoring the law for evil, and a handful of examples where the good vs evil question is uncertain but should still be considered bad because they are breaking the law.