My issue is that the "public" wouldn't get to say how things are done, the "government" does. The government isn't controlled by the majority because of both the method that the Federal government is set up where Montana has the same number of Senators as California, the Electoral College and gerrymandering. I have no desire to give the government more power. I can leave Google much easier than I can leave the US. Google also doesn't have a "monopoly on violence".