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Do you think corporations have the right to free speech? Do you think they ought to?
by nappy 9y ago
Do you think corporations have the right to free speech? Do you think they ought to?
- acchow 9y agoThis isn't about a corporation's free speech. It's about people exercising their free speech using products built by companies.
- nappy 9y agoA corporation spending money to host and spread speech in order to make a profit.
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- bduerst 9y agoIronic considering a for-profit organization is paying to host and spread your speech right there.
- mgkimsal 9y agowould you feel radically different if they were suing multiple non-profit/charitable sites that hosted discussion forums and provided communication platforms where this stuff took place?
- gumby 9y agoI read that as the free speech of others, not the "speech" of the companies. The whole "companies are people" is nonsense. They are simply machines like any other human invention, and can't reasonably be held to have objectives or speech of their own any more than an automobile can.
- wand3r 9y agoI edited for clarity
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- GauntletWizard 9y agoYes. Anything that a person would be able to say, a group of people should be allowed to get together to say. The much-maligned "Corporate Personhood" is a founding principal of pretty much all of US law, in that it defines a corporation as simply being a proxy for all of it's members. There are plenty of places where Corporations should currently be being prosecuted for fraud and false advertising. These are places where the people behind them would and should be just as liable for those things (and judges should pierce the corporate veil to prosecute those responsible). This is not those times.
- aub3bhat 9y agoCorporations have a right to free speech, and it has been affirmed many many many times by Supreme Court.