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Oh I have no doubt those lines are becoming more and more blurred and that certain big companies in key positions are theoretically beyond accountability.

But the question was "why trust a company and not the government?"

So even now it's between:

  * A company who, if big enough and in a key position, could theoretically do this

And

  * A government who we know for sure have grabbed multiple people off the streets, within the past month, and have trafficked them out of the country without any due process. 

So it's still "could maybe do harm" versus "already controls an army of masked men who are undeniably active in doing harm."

>But the question was "why trust a company and not the government?"

The post you were replying to simply said the behavior of this administration made them care more about this issue, not that they trusted companies more than the government. That statement is not even implied in anyway in the comment you responded to?

The fact is whereas in the past it would be expected that the government could regulate the brutal and illegal overreaches of private companies, giving military rank to private companies execs makes that even less likely. The original comment is alluding to a simpler point: A government that gives blank checks to private companies in military and security matters is much worse than one that doesn't.

More like do you trust what's left of the US judicial branch versus the private arbitration company to save you from the excesses of their respective executives.

I'll still take an increasingly stacked US federal court that still has to pay lip service to the constitution over private arbitration hired by the company accountable only to their whims.

What you mentioned has been repeatedly ruled unconstitutional, but the administration is ignoring the courts.

The comment I responded to said "Trusting companies more than the government always feels strange. It's something I can't grasp."

You're right, my bad. I meant the original context of the grandparent