Re: Facebook will position itself as a provider of government digital services
"But companies that mine the data can have the results taken by the government and then used for evil purposes."
And large corporations can and do hire private armies to kill, throw people in jail, and confiscate their stuff. In more "civilized" parts of the world, they have the government do it for them. The idea that corporations are less dangerous and powerful than governments is demonstrably false.
The primary difference between the two is that, at least in democracies, you have some amount of effective say in how the government operates. You have almost no effective say in how corporations operate.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
