> Corporations want to make money and control their own destiny. > Our countries are run by companies which are run by humans with a profit motive. Why should

> Corporations want to make money and control their own destiny. > Our countries are run by companies which are run by humans with a profit motive. Why should we let corporations get what they want? Our countries are run by companies only to the extent that our democratic governments let them run them. We have the power to overrule companies when it suits us, and IMO we ought to be using that power a fair bit more than we currently are. If companies knew that the regulators would come down hard on them when they take the piss like this then it wouldn't be in their profit-motivated self-interest to behave like this. > That's what you and I would do if we controlled our own wildly popular platform. And FWIW, no it's absolutely not what I would do. I actually have some ethics beyond profit-maximisation thank you very much! Whether such an ethical company would become so powerful in the first place (rather than getting it's lunch eaten by a less ethical one) is an interesting question though, and one of the main reason I think restricting these companies is so important: other better companies can't otherwise compete.