Corporate "Free Speech" not necessarily right
Author: Dragoman
Date: 05-06-2019 - 17:29
knuckledragon Wrote:
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> It's a good bet that any initiative or referendum
> attacking taxes and/or transit has some Koch
> involvement. But that's fine. It's perfectly
> legal. Corporations are people with free speech
> rights, and supporting election proposals that
> benefit you as a corporation are part of free
> (political) speech. The Supreme Court has said so.
The fact that the Supreme Court said so doesn't make it right or good for society. At one point the Supremes approved of many things later thought inappropriate, or even evil, such as slavery, Jim Crow laws, US internment of the Japanese, and so on.