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yes. google doesnt exactly have the same capabilities as the chinese state now does it?

• dogma1138 5y ago
  From a purely technical perspective it probably has more. But there is little to no actual equivalence between a company and a state actor. Companies are still beholden to the law regardless of how corrupt or powerful you think they are, a nation state is the law.
  • realusername 5y ago
    > Companies are still beholden to the law regardless of how corrupt or powerful you think they are, a nation state is the law. I don't think that applies to a company as big as Google, they can bend the laws as much as they want if necessary and do whatever they want (as they demonstrated it multiple times). The only real difference is that Google will never send the police to your door like a powerful corrupt state would.
    • dogma1138 5y ago
      The difference is that the state can send the police to Google’s door. Twitter offices in India got raided by the police just recently because they marked some posts made by Modi and his party as “misinformation”. Now in this case it’s a questionably corrupt government strong arming a corporation but regardless of how much power you think Google has if the US president wanted too every Google employee could end up being locked up heck Gitmo is still technically open... Google might have a lot of soft power due to how big and wealthy they are, but in the end of the day soft power gets you only so far.