If you&#x27;d read more than &quot;a little bit&quot; of history, you&#x27;d be able to see these things in proper perspective.<p>Multinational corporations are inherently more democratic, more public, than governments. A government derives its capacity to operate from violence, you are forced to pay taxes.<p>A corporation has to be accountable to a marketplace, and must operate within the law of countries it operates in. Markets are ultimately more powerful than governments, that&#x27;s why authoritarians want to tell people what they can sell to whom and how. Markets provide the people with ways to get things that don&#x27;t come from the government, that&#x27;s how they undermine authority.<p>I stand by my statement that Facebook is a public institution. It&#x27;s publicly traded, you can buy voting shares and get a say in how the company is run. Of course Facebook is accountable to its user base, that&#x27;s ultimately where they get all their revenue from. Facebook is more accountable than democratic governments are, you can&#x27;t choose to not pay your taxes. Also, what is the practical difference between public and private management?<p>Manipulating public opinion is ridiculously hard and only the most hardcore authoritarian states are capable of doing so effectively. Even then it&#x27;s a cat and mouse game, the truth has ways of getting out.