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"And that is what is wrong here. Even the smallest nation should be far more powerful than the largest corporation"

Since nations can be really small, I don't agree.





Even the smallest nations have the legal right to permanently incarcerate, strip you of your assets or even murder you if you are in their sphere of influence. I would hope you'd agree those are not powers that we should grant to large corporations...

I think it's shocking how many people Google can affect through its search algorithms (more than any nation on Earth) and yet there is no democratic system to hold them accountable.


>Even the smallest nations have the legal right to permanently incarcerate, strip you of your assets or even murder you if you are in their sphere of influence.

A nation that did that would be able to do that exactly once before everyone decides to never do business with it ever again, which they can afford to do because it's such a small market. Exercising arbitrary power is not the trump card you think it is. Hell, even a tiny nation with reasonable but annoying (from the point of view of a corporation) laws may not be worth it to deal with.


> > Even the smallest nations have the legal right to permanently incarcerate, strip you of your assets or even murder you if you are in their sphere of influence.

> A nation that did that would be able to do that exactly once before everyone decides to never do business with it ever again

US CBP and ICE would like a word with you.


Or more. If some small state decides to officially murder a US tourist while he never broke a local law, I do believe the public outcry would make the US government do more than just stop doing buisness.


Well, Saudi Arabia and Israel are not "some small state".

Ah, the well known true small state fallacy. Should have seen that one coming I guess.

Seriously?

True "some small state fallacy" please. And here I believe it matters if we are talking about some small state, or a small state that happens to be a close ally with lots of influence for various reasons.


Singapore.

Kill, not murder. If the country ends your life they are doing it under their authority, not outside their authority.

Context is everything. There are plenty of instances of countries murdering people. Authority does not define murder, ethics does.

So for example the Nazis did not murder people? It was under their authority after all ...

Point being, also states can do murder.


This was my first thought too, but the largest corporations are way too large any healthy society.



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