Comment by tern

> A phone, but you can only use it to perform government approved actions on government approved software.

Are you not more or less arguing for this?

But you're right to point to a nasty problem, the solution to which is not obvious: "what do you do when society begins to rely on something created by a corporation, which is not accountable to a populace?"

Turning the corporation into a mini government may not have the effects you want