>such as the cell phone market

Not in Canada - same two monopoly suppliers. Means you get the iPhone 18months after the US, kindle 2 years later, still can't get skypein etc.

Unless something has changed, you still cannot get a Kindle from amazon.ca. Instead, you've got to go through amazon.com, and there are restrictions on the books that you can buy, if you do it in Canada.

Even buying it from the US - it only just got wireless downloads in Canada

I was referring to the hardware. Not the set of supplier corporations that are intertwined with the state.

Ikea is the most notorius tax avoider in the world.

The great swedish furniture company is actually a dutch charity.

Bill & Melinda Foundation?

They do actually give away money - although with some strings attached (like your government not using open source!)

IKEA itself - not the owner - is a charity, registered in Holland to be in the Eu but actually in the Dutch antilles so they don't pay Dutch tax and they can keep secret any donations

Do you have a reference to back up the OSS prohibition? It sounds like an urban legend and I couldn't find anything searching, but I've seen weirder things before.

A civilised response it to have a state owned media who if they forget who their masters are you can have a quiet word with.

Then you arrest any citisen journalist who happens to photograph demonstrators viscously hitting their heads against police batons and threaten then with 15years in prison for wiretapping or for taking images useful to terrorists.