At 11:09 AM 4/30/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: ...
I suggest an "eye test". If it is theoretically possible to talk with it eye-to-eye[1], then the Constitution applies. If it isn't possible to talk with it without a proxy person - a CEO, a spokesperson, etc. - no "higher rights" apply.
So, if I have a right to free speech, and so do you, why would a voluntary association we formed together not have it? And what impact would that have on the ability of people like you and me to actually get our ideas out there? What happens when some media are so expensive that they're virtually never owned by a single person--does that mean laws can regulate what they are and aren't allowed to say?
A non-personal entity should be considered to voluntarily give up its "right" to existence by an act of knowingly lying. A death penalty - the entity liquidation - should swiftly follow.
So if I want to destroy Intel, all I have to do is get one provocateur into their PR department, to issue a press release that says "The sky is green"? --John Kelsey, kelsey.j@ix.netcom.com PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259