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As the old saying goes: don’t lie, don’t steal: the government doesn’t like competition.

Although I do believe that governments should be liable (is this the best word?) to people and in turn make companies liable too.

>>ahoka+(OP)
Accountable? Democratic governments are accountable to people. How well that works in practice varies of course; there's always room to improve democracy, but the basic principle is there.

Companies are, according to some ideologies, only really accountable to their shareholders and to the law. If you want to hold them more accountable, the law is generally the way to do that.

Autocratic governments are of course not accountable to the people, and autocratic parties in democracies go out of their way to undermine their accountability.