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Mark my words, this is going to become more common. When corporations become as large as nation-states they will begin to act like nation-states.
Oh, you got malware from our ads? Well if we could implement our Web Integrity API we could easily verify, and track any ads and prevent this. It's all about security and think of how much better your security would be if we could prevent this!
They may not be in terms of people, but many sure as hell are already bigger in terms of money than a LOT of countries. Not to mention how Microsoft alone is the "glue" holding together a fuckload of different govt's computer systems.