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Over the Cliff

by NotPhil · #law
posted 632 days ago · shared by: 6
The court’s speech-protective instincts appear increasingly to serve a deregulatory agenda.


by mk 632 days ago  ·  link
"...Indeed, the states might reasonably fear that the corporation would use its economic power to obtain further benefits beyond those already bestowed.”

It seems to me a failure of the imagination that corporations can't be legal entities with some rights that are similar to those of people, but not all of them.

I still don't know why corporations aren't limited like I am in campaign donations. Why is their speech unlimited but mine is when it comes to campaign support?

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by NotPhil 631 days ago  ·  link
I'm just as disturbed by the notion that money is speech. "Money talks," is generally considered to be a very bad thing, right? So, why would anyone wish to enshrine this problem in law?

Surely, if money really is speech, then only the very wealthy, who usually aren't even people anyhow -- only incorporated entities, can ever be heard. Why pretend we can have a democratic dialog, when only a very few can wield the megaphone, and everyone else gets shouted over?

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by mk 628 days ago  ·  link
>Surely, if money really is speech, then only the very wealthy, who usually aren't even people anyhow -- only incorporated entities, can ever be heard. Why pretend we can have a democratic dialog, when only a very few can wield the megaphone, and everyone else gets shouted over?

Seems a pretty good foundation for Facism, doesn't it? Couple that with a populace trained to think that "Government is the Problem", and what will come? Not more democracy, to be sure.

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