She is, and it is a brilliant insight. Corporations are “artificial persons” created by law. It used to be very hard to form a corporation and in most places needed a charter issued by the state legislature. It has changed over time. Without saying what is right or wrong here, it is good that she is questioning the roots of the problem.
I have long thought “commercial” speech needed some common sense limits that I do not think are always there.
parsy, who is not scared by this.
Individuals who represent corporations are not "artificial persons". They can say what they want representing whatever they want.
What about its mercurial partisan reverberations — is it merely a victim of political pressures?