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"Corporations are people and money is speech" was just Stephen Colbert's in-character strawman summary of the Citizens United decision. A better summary is tha
by 0110101001 4y ago
"Corporations are people and money is speech" was just Stephen Colbert's in-character strawman summary of the Citizens United decision.
A better summary is that restrictions on money being spent on speech are effectively restrictions on speech, itself, and the freedom of speech is not limited to individuals.
- foobarbecue 4y agoRight. Citizens United used those two ridiculous arguments (spending is speech, corporations should have rights intended for individuals) to allow corporations to ignore corporate campaign contribution limits. I didn't know Colbert coined "corporations are people" -- TIL.
- foobarbecue 4y agoOk, he didn't. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood And https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...