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But why is a company's right to speech more important than a real person's civil rights? A company is a mere legal fiction and it's rights should not be given e
by BitwiseFool 6y ago
But why is a company's right to speech more important than a real person's civil rights? A company is a mere legal fiction and it's rights should not be given equal weight to those of actual human beings, especially for a corporation as large as Amazon.
Edit: I know the issue becomes murkier for things like mom and pop shops and sole proprietorships, but I am willing to make distinctions based on scale.
- ctdonath 6y agoBecause a company is a group of real people making decisions together. There is no “legal fiction” deciding to not associate with certain others.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoI still fail to see how that coordinated group of people motivated by profit takes precedence over the civil rights of an individual.
- Goronmon 6y agoI fail to see how an individual loses their civil rights just because they joined a "coordinated group of people".
- BitwiseFool 6y agoThe individual who joined the "coordinated group of people" (the corporation) still have their individual civil rights, but the legal entity they constitute should not have it's rights valued on the same level as individual human beings. If the corporation is being seen as a single entity then you should not consider it's employees' individual rights as the same thing. Or even combine them together to give more weight to the corporation's rights.
- ctdonath 6y agoFreedom of association inherently involves groups of individual people mutually deciding to not associate with particular individuals.
- a1369209993 6y ago> the issue becomes murkier for things like mom and pop shops and sole proprietorships No it doesn't. The mom, the pop, and the sole proprietor are people; they have rights, which certain curtailments of their business might interfere with. The businesses themselves do not.