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Only a legally elected, democratic, and accountable government has the right to demand a passport, ID, or similar documents.

A corporation does not have that right.

This is the line that keeps getting blurred. A state, when it is lawful and democratic, has public authority. It exists inside a legal and political system. It can be pressured, challenged, limited, or replaced.

A corporation is not like that.

Nobody elected Google, Meta or LinkedIn. Nobody gave these companies a public mandate to decide who is real, who is suspicious, who may speak, who may work, who may enter, who may be locked out. When they need to sort out spam and abuse problems, it is their problem, not of users.

So when a corporation asks for a passport, the first question should not be “is this convenient?” or “is this normal now?”

The first question should be: who gave them this power?

A passport is not just a file to upload. It is a state document. It belongs to the relationship between a person and a country. When a private company demands it, the company starts acting like a government, but without elections, without public responsibility, and often without any real explanation.

This is not security. This is private power expanding into places where it does not belong.

And the worst part is how easily society accepts it. First people complain. Then they adapt. Then they forget it was ever strange.

Today it is: upload your passport. Tomorrow it is: prove your identity to speak, to work, to receive money, to use basic services, to exist online.

At that point we are not far from Google City, Amazon City, LinkedIn City — corporate territories where private platforms have public power, but the public has no real control over them.

Corporations are already dangerous by their nature. They are not built to care about the human being. They care about numbers, documents, profit, risk, compliance, growth, data. Feels like cancer.

A person becomes a profile, a passport becomes just another attachment, a life becomes a form to approve or reject.

That is why this must be resisted. Some powers belong only to public democratic institutions. Not to platforms. Not to apps. Not to companies whose only real language is profit.

Power without elections is not legitimacy.

It is corporate rule and it smells just wrong.