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The problem with CU isn't the 1st Amendment, it's corporate personhood and the press. It's easy to argue that corporations and unions don't deserve free speech
by hackerboos 11y ago
The problem with CU isn't the 1st Amendment, it's corporate personhood and the press.
It's easy to argue that corporations and unions don't deserve free speech as their directors, employees and members are all entitled to free speech individually.
However the press is different. Nobody, rightly so, wants to limit the press to say and print whatever they like (so long as it's not slander/libel) and today's press is made up of corporations.
How do we keep a free press and silence other corporations?
- nl 11y agoOh yeah, the corporate personhood thing. I forgot that. But I only forgot about it because I simply don't see how that matters in an real way. Even if corporate personhood went away then (actual, real human) people would be paid to speak for a corporation, and then you hit the the 1st Amendment rights issues again.
- hackerboos 11y ago>Even if corporate personhood went away then (actual, real human) people would be paid to speak for a corporation There are proper campaign finance laws which regulate the above. Nothing is currently regulating SuperPACs at the moment, even American divisions of foreign corporations can accept money.