Fake News for Big Brother

[Harmon Seaver]

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 09:42:21AM -0400, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:09:29AM +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> > If I speak for myself, the First Amendment applies.
> > 
> > But should it apply even to corporations? Are such entities considered to
> > be persons? Should they have "rights"?
> 
> How about Indymedia? How about a student newspaper collective? How
> about Slashdot and its editors? How about the New York Times' editorial page?
> 

   That's obviously covered under the 1st's "freedom of the press". What does
that have to do with non-humans (corporations) having Constitutional rights? The
arguement always put forth is that corporations have the right to make campaign
contributions, because that's "freedom of speech". But I guess if those rights
are going to be extended to non-humans like corporations, then there's no way to
stop them from being extended to other non-human entities as well, such as
animals and trees. Or even rocks. 


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Harmon Seaver	
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