{}coin: good enough for election politics?

[rysiek@hackerspace.pl (rysiek)]

Dnia piÄ?tek, 24 stycznia 2014 19:02:39 James A. Donald pisze:
> J.A. Terranson <measl@mfn.org>
> 
> > Assuming all of your arguments to be correct (which I don't), I would want
> > to remove "freedom of speech" for corporations because it artificially
> > amplifies the voice of the corporate entity: the individuals who own the
> > issued shares of the corporation already have these freedoms
> 
> They ought to have these freedom, but in practice they don't.  Hillary
> Clinton does not have to obey the campaign finance laws, leftists do not
> have to obey the campaign finance laws, but  Kirk Shelmerdine does have
> to obey the campaign finance laws.
> 
> And because corporations do not, in practice, have these freedoms, their
> employees and shareholders are denied these freedoms.

Maybe instead of giving the voice to a legal fiction we should work towards 
restoring the voice of real persons, eh?..

-- 
Pozdr
rysiek
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