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When are we going to reign in this kind of corporate propaganda? Oil companies are doing this, cigarette companies did this, asbestos companies did this, lead
by seventytwo 6y ago
When are we going to reign in this kind of corporate propaganda?
Oil companies are doing this, cigarette companies did this, asbestos companies did this, lead companies did this, opioid companies did this, sugar companies are actively doing this...
- hackeraccount 6y agoCareful. The problem you describe has an easy solution that only leads to more problems.
- voisin 6y agoI assume you are referring to limiting free speech. I think limiting free speech for non-natural persons (i.e. corporations, partnerships, LLCs, etc) would be extremely effective without leading to problems associated with limiting free speech of natural persons.
- AwaAwa 6y agoHow would that work when corporations have the same rights as people?
- klyrs 6y agoLegally speaking, corporations having the same rights as people is the novel concept
- hackeraccount 6y agoI write for a newspaper. Limit my speech? I publish books. Limit my speech? There's an easy solution. It just causes problems. There's a difficult solution too.
- drewcoo 6y agoAnd I assumed the problem was either marketing or profit-driven corporations.