It's almost in the definition of a dot-com, large and small, that the impact of any particular action they take is greater than the cost of that action to the c

It's almost in the definition of a dot-com, large and small, that the impact of any particular action they take is greater than the cost of that action to the company. That's why tech startups are so appealing. But if you have such leveraged benefits, you also have such leveraged risk. The same leverage that lets a small team create great value also puts them in a position where they can cause great harm. I used large dot coms because there was some insistence in the thread that regulation was only worth talking about with large companies. A red herring, of course, since the mom and pop corner dry cleaner is a regulated business, and for the common good. Size isn't really an issue. The difference is that it's almost a tautology that dot coms have influence, good and bad, far out of proportion to their size...