I thought its supposed to be the other way around. By advanced you mean a proper developed country? with a stronger civil society and citizen movement group that is not curtailed by the government? Of course information has to be liberated and not kept secret or else people would find it hard to know exactly whats going on whether with their governments or corporations. But with a liberated civil society, I don't see how the free market could threaten them. But of course we are nowhere near the ideal situation even in developed nations.