Palace Blue Mansion's videos and news were everywhere, and there was no stopping it, not to mention the matter of the Arasaka Group's Soul Chips, which was adding insult to injury. For a time, governments around the world were almost all meeting to discuss how to limit corporate power and prevent incidents similar to those of the Arasaka Group from happening—after all, most of these implants and cyberbodies were manufactured by corporations, and even politicians didn't want to be controlled and turn into puppets, did they?
As for the Arasaka Group, it was directly divvied up by various countries. After all, if you've done something as villainous as controlling humans, you've got all the evidence needed, both human and material, so taking care of you was just the logical step, right?
