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> How does this limit the free speech of private companies? Does a company have free speech? Yes! And very broadly so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_U
by newacct583 6y ago
> How does this limit the free speech of private companies? Does a company have free speech?
Yes! And very broadly so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
(Which, as much as it pains me as a hippie liberal to admit it, is probably the best decision in context. Enshrining even things like corporate election finance as "speech" makes is VERY clear that government regulation of actual opinion on behalf of private entities is verboten. At the time none of us saw Trump coming, but if the price for protecting a twitter correction is a bunch of Comcast-funded PACs? Yeah, I'll pay that.)