>Very famously the US supreme court ruled in 2010 that corporations have free speech and money is speech Not quite. They ruled that that corporations can spend

>Very famously the US supreme court ruled in 2010 that corporations have free speech and money is speech Not quite. They ruled that that corporations can spend unlimited money because money is is speech, which was an established precedent set by the much earlier Buckley v. Valeo: >The majority ruled that the Freedom of the Press clause of the First Amendment protects associations of individuals in addition to individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker. Corporations, as associations of individuals, therefore have free speech rights under the First Amendment. Because spending money is essential to disseminating speech, as established in Buckley v. Valeo, limiting a corporation's ability to spend money is unconstitutional because it limits the ability of its members to associate effectively and to speak on political issues. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Opinion_of_the_Court https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Opinion...