Like you I've also instinctively always been opposed to task private companies with civic duties but in particular seeing the direction both the US and China are heading in terms of privacy I'm begrudingly almost feeling better with companies taking on stakeholder roles.

I don't really have any illusions that most of the entrepreneurs aren't full of it when they talk about values but nonetheless it's incredibly sad to see how strongly the very largest governments fail in advocating for civil liberties.