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Both are troubling, but governments can imprison and/or kill you. Corporations usually can't or won't. The "actual useful reasons" you mention may exist alongs
by nathan_long 13y ago
Both are troubling, but governments can imprison and/or kill you. Corporations usually can't or won't.
The "actual useful reasons" you mention may exist alongside personal or political reasons of individual government employees.
- mpyne 13y agoIt's not as if the average individual government employee has the ability to spawn black helicopters or deploy police assets just to settle a neighborhood rivalry. If anything they have less actual power than a corporate drone nowadays (just ask the bankers). Teenagers have killed themselves over stuff posted to Facebook so I wish people would quit acting like the government is really that much more directly important to the day-to-day lives of people. If you're going to be worried then be worried, but at least be consistently worried. http://xkcd.com/1200/ http://xkcd.com/1200/ is also close to relevant.