>So how exactly are large corporations any different from the government and vice versa?
Can a large corporation shoot you?
Can a large corporation create laws out of their ass (excluding lobbying) to throw you in jail?
Can a large corporation exist even if consumers don't like them? (protip; they can't)
Can a large corporation hold you at gunpoint and demand your money or they'll put you in a cage?
Can individuals in a large corporation get away with crimes? (I'm talking actual crimes, not victimless crimes like doing lines of cocaine)
Do people assume large corporations are harmless beings who would never go against the will of the people?
Is the corporation allowed to hold a monopoly by violently killing or subduing their competitors?
Large corporations are bad, but ultimately, if you can answer yes to any of my above questions, then you need to look at why they can do that- the answer is always government. Corporations get their power from government.
Are large corporations bad? Most certainly, no one is going to deny that the owners of Apple are fucking assholes. Are they the problem? No. They are a symptom of the problem. Large corporations may be your sore throat and runny nose, but the cause of the sore throat and runny nose is the virus or bacterial infection known as government.
>So why is it ok to restrict one but not the other? Both should be restricted for individual freedom.
Because as any economist or businessman can point out, it is theoretically improbable if not impossible for a corporation to hold a monopoly large enough to be defined as "large enough to cause damage" without prior government intervention into the marketplace. Government-sponsored monopolies suck balls because competition can't crop up. The difference is that in a free market, the corporation must outperform all of their competition and do so consistently and efficiently in order to maintain their monopoly- that means increasingly better (if not new) goods on the consumer's end.
When people make any claim of "well your ideology fails because X corporation-" It's important to remind them that a large corporation CAN NOT form unless they are either A. Better than all of their competition (standard oil, early Ford models, etc.), B. Hold a "secrecy monopoly" on their product (soft drink recipes, diamond cutters, etc.), or C. Get government intervention in the marketplace to keep competition from forming (Comcast, Banks, most Cell Phone companies, etc.).
A large corporation is subject to all of the same inefficiencies that government is when spread out over a large region. This is why corporations such as Goodwill opt to make each region autonomous and to just collect the bill/fund further development on-site rather than to micromanage. It's the same reason the corporate structure of various managers exists. If you deny that big central government is subject to inefficiency the larger it gets, then you shouldn't even be making this argument in the first place.