Yes, it is—gp’s point being we do that all the time and often agree that it makes sense.

A baby doesn’t catch a sex pest charge for running around naked, but it also can’t get a gun license. A mom-n-pop doesn’t have to hire an auditor and file with the SEC, but it also can’t sell shares of itself to the public.

Why? The bigger you are, the more responsibility you bear: the bigger the impact of your mistakes, the subtler the complexities of your operation, the greater your sophistication relative to individual customers/citizens—and the greater your relative capacity to self-regulate.

Corporations are not people. This is not different rules for different people.

In the traditionally implied sense of different rules for different social classes.

Because quantity is a quality of its own.

Because their conditions and abilities are different.

But the conditions aren't here to annoy big companies but because we want to shape society in a specific way. Why would I allow small companies to disrespct author rights and steal, or gather more private information about citizens?