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mindcrime on June 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter Steps Down From the Free Speech Party

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.

dragonwriter on June 13, 2014 [–]

If corporations were independent of sovereign governments, they would be sovereign governments, not challengers to them.

mindcrime on June 13, 2014 | [–]

Maybe, but not necessarily the same kind of sovereign government.

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