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

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.