But such means are ineffective on corporations because they are essentially non-democratic and place their selves outside the ambit of popular democracy. Additionally, thanks to the pedestal which popular and mainstream media puts the IT corporations on, they have assumed an unwritten exceptionalism to ethics commonly followed by others. IT corporations have time and again asserted that they can pursue their interests and their profits at any cost and by any means beyond the laws of the land because they are “differen”.