the thought that citizens united ruling is one of the greatest victories for free speech is appalling.
corporations are not and never have been people. Just because some foot note in case law indicates that they are and deserve the rights of people doesn’t change the fact that a business is a contractual entity, utterly different than a human being and deserving of different rights and responsibilities than humans.
The sort of thinking that a corporation is a person is part of what is wrong in our culture. We need to change that.
The people who wrie a corporation’s policy statements and declarations are- TA-DA -people. The corporation writes nothing and speaks nothing. Do people lose their 1st Amendment freedoms by becoming members of corporations?