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I don't think this is practical. So say your friendly neighborhood oil company sends a memo out to its employees saying "We need to drill in the [Insert Nation
by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't think this is practical. So say your friendly neighborhood oil company sends a memo out to its employees saying "We need to drill in the [Insert National Park] to stay in business. So if you want to keep your job you need to send money to politicians that will allow us to drill in [Insert National Park]"
If that statement is true and the company would really go out of business than it isn't coercion. But the end result is the same as you have now.
The same is true for Unions just substitute "You have to elect this person or they'll gut your social security and take away your pension" in place of drilling.
- protomyth 15y agoThere are actually laws about the corporation doing that exact thing already. Unions are a little trickery because they do use member money to do such things, but the principal is the same. Lock a few executives up when they pull this stunt and reward the whistleblower.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoLook at the flip side: consider all the companies standing against SOPA/PIPA right now. Do you want to prevent them from even drawing attention to the issue? Do you want to prevent employees from taking any steps at all to raise awareness among like-minded people, many of which might work at the same company?
- protomyth 15y agoyes, yes I do - the media companies caused the law in the first place - individuals raised the defense