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You fear the government doing something like this but the corporation already has. What difference is there? Please don't claim that the government has a monopoly on violence, that is certainly not the case.


I don’t think many large technology sector corporations employ physical violence. We do have organized crime, and private defense contractors like Halliburton, obviously, but in the context of companies that manufacture or influence manufacturing or distribution of computing components, if you want to say they do more physical violence than the government, I’d say that warrants a citation and evidence as an odd/irregular claim.


> You fear the government doing something like this but the corporation already has. What difference is there? Please don't claim that the government has a monopoly on violence, that is certainly not the case.

Can you please give an example from recent history (past twenty years) of corporations forming a duopoly on violence?


Apple PIs accompanying police in their official capacity to investigative sites during their stolen iPhone 4 investigation comes to mind.

Also Blackwater, and the breakup of Occupy, which was a public/private partnership between law enforcement and the banks.




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