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There are plenty of other ways to ruin a life available to a megacorp.
Even then: Who is more powerful, of Google and the Musk group? The latter used wealth to influence a government that is abducting people off the street for undesirable speech.
> Likewise assuming that because it is a government it is more aligned to your interests is frankly, dangerously naive.
The "δῆμος" in "democracy" is what makes it aligned; the unfortunate part is that "aligned" doesn't mean "competent" or "friendly", there's no coherent extrapolated volition here.
A tech company wouldn't do that. But only because kicking and kidnapping style activities aren't their niche.
But they can, would and do supply the mass surveillance and "AI" target generation that enables those who do employ goon squads and launch missile strikes.
Now Big Tech is such a large percentage of the USA's stock market valuation that there's no political will to reign on them, and they feel free to try to break other countries' laws since the USA's government will be backing them up if they pick a big enough fight, it's the golden goose, they know it and they use and will continue to use that power.