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Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by mindcrime on Friday June 13, 2014 @11:40AM (#7889358)
Corporations are entities who owe their existence to government and can be terminated at a whim by government.

Yeah that's the way it works today and in Real Life. Clearly the cyberpunk scenario is a hypothetical, but it might not be as far-fetched as it seems.

Whether it's a Good Idea or not is, obviously a big question.

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Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by dragonwriter on Friday June 13, 2014 @01:52PM (#7890033)
If corporations were independent of sovereign governments, they would be sovereign governments, not challengers to them.
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Re:Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party by mindcrime on Friday June 13, 2014 @03:54PM (#7890549)
Maybe, but not necessarily the same kind of sovereign government.
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