[saddestcatever]

Consequences.

The consequences for being a bad-actor are generally worse for a private individual or private organization.

Organizations have reputation concerns, individuals have legal and personal concerns.

The gov't? Not so much. The NSA, institutionalized spying, slow transition to a police-state... I don't get the feeling that these are much cause for reputational concern at the federal level.

[acdha]

> The consequences for being a bad-actor are generally worse for a private individual or private organization.

I don't think it's this simple — for example, what consequences have Comcast, Verizon, Facebook, etc. had for stifling competition or reselling customer data? It seems to come back to how well the political process works in all of those cases.

[imoverclocked]

Comcast seems like a good counter example here. They don’t have a great reputation and get away with quite a bit historically.