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Well it's an interesting idea to consider a corporation more like a derivative of the state, as it comes into existence via state power, and is in effect immort
by cmurf 10y ago
Well it's an interesting idea to consider a corporation more like a derivative of the state, as it comes into existence via state power, and is in effect immortal until its existence is ended via state power; rather than like the derivative of a person. Therefore there may be a compelling argument that as the 14th amendment extends the bill of rights requirements to all of the states to uphold, that a corporate charter extends some narrow portion as well. As in, the corporation can abridge free speech of employees as spokespeople for their company, a consistent message of what the company "says" is important to be kept clear. But abridging the free speech of its customers seems a lot more problematic, to have a broad brush to just censor anyone using the service for any reason.
I doubt such treatment will come to pass anytime soon though. It's Facebooks infrastructure, and the EULA everyone agreed to gives Facebook, contractually, the power to engage in this censorship. If you don't like it, then maybe you shouldn't have agreed to their EULA which basically says all of your contents is not yours it's theirs. And this is something people who actually read these EULAs warned about and most people just gave it a hand wave as if it wouldn't actually ever be an issue.