This phrasing makes me feel like we're living in some techno-future where corporations are de-facto governance apparatuses, squashing rebellion and dissidents :^)
Colonial companies did this all the time, e.g. the British East India Company, and the 1800s American railroads had the Pinkertons. There's also the phenomenon of the company town.
This phrasing makes me feel like we're living in some techno-future where corporations are de-facto governance apparatuses, squashing rebellion and dissidents :^)