This is why libertarians and many modern authoritarian LOVE corporations. Unlike governments which have some accountability (that has seriously been dwindling) corporations can basically do what they want. Laws are effectively written by corporations so that anyone in any position of authority is never thrown in prison or even needs to worry about that (ultra low level workers can be thrown to the dogs to placate the public every once in a while) and meanwhile the right of protestors has been so seriously curtailed that soon even in formerly first world countries they might be able to break out the machine guns like they did in central America in the 1910s and 1950s. In Britain protestors are being sentenced to record prison terms that were formerly reserved for rapists and muggers.
There is little question that corporations are behind them all.
What sucks is that these iconic 80s slasher villains represented a societal backlash against the hippie boomers of the 60s and 70s as many boomers started feeling embarrassed over their free love phase and the changes of society. So the whole theme was that society was punishing early Gen Xers and late baby boomers for being sexually active.