The US is a federation . That means that we have 50 otherwise independant countries give up some of their sovereignty to a Federal Government . We don ' t really see it that way nowadays , mostly because the states have been incredibly weak recently , and the Federal Government really strong , but it ' s true . The UN is similar to a Federation , kind of . Not quite there , and it ' s incredibly weak , but independent countries are all give up some of their sovereignty to the UN . A very small amount , but some of it . Every country gets one vote in the UN legislature , because the UN is meant to represent the countries ' interests . Same with the US . <| sep |> Don ' t let the details get in the way of a good story <| sep |> could be he wrote a script that acts against administrative APIRight . But my thought is he shouldn ' t have access as CEO to those APIs . Those APIs should only be manually used after consulting multiple people in the company , for the sake of inner transparency . honestly , it seems to me using that power should also be publicly announced before hand , too .