The government is bound by acquisition processes for these large contracts: they put out RFPs and companies compete for the contract. All Google has to do is not bid for the next contract.
Pretty sure the 13th Amendment guarantees this, in theory. (Corporations aren't natural persons, but forcing a corporation to provide a service boils down to forcing people to provide a service.)
The Supreme Court has upheld the Selective Service Act as allowable under the 13th Amendment as something other than involuntary servitude, repeatedly since 1918. So personhood isn't much of an obstacle to conscription.
The government is bound by acquisition processes for these large contracts: they put out RFPs and companies compete for the contract. All Google has to do is not bid for the next contract.
Yes.
They could be nationalized in times of war, but that hasn't happened since WW2 I think.
The antitrust case and other regulatory arm twisting is more to worry about.
Good thing the war for oil, ahem, against terrorism and drugs, is permanent
Pretty sure the 13th Amendment guarantees this, in theory. (Corporations aren't natural persons, but forcing a corporation to provide a service boils down to forcing people to provide a service.)
The Supreme Court has upheld the Selective Service Act as allowable under the 13th Amendment as something other than involuntary servitude, repeatedly since 1918. So personhood isn't much of an obstacle to conscription.
There is an exception that can be made by the government for wartime, but otherwise, yes.
Yes they absolutely can. Providing services to the government is strictly a choice made by the business.
I think it's kind of past the point of wondering what somebody can and cannot do according to the law? There used to be the constitution and stuff.