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Wouldn't this completely screw over corporations? Or do we have some other mechanisms that will continue to protect them from these abuses them but not other t

• learc83 8y ago
  Corporations in general have the constitutional protections that people acting in a group have. Corporate personhood is just a convenient legal fiction. For example corporations don't have a right to free speech because they are "persons" but because we extend the rights of the individuals who make up the group to the group itself.
  • gowld 8y ago
    > we extend the rights The constitutional basis for that is not secure. It's not obvious that your right to free speech extends to secretly paying someone else to speak. If I leave an iPod in a public park playing a speech, the authorities can remove or disable the iPod, not a violation of my speech rights.
    • icebraining 8y ago
      I'm pretty sure they can also remove you; what they can't do is remove you based on the content of your speech, but then again I doubt they can have a policy of only removing iPods playing political speeches with certain viewpoints.
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