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Corporate Personhood Is Doomed. Via Daypop.

This would be very good.
The US has a couple bizarre notions which get it into a heck of trouble.
One is corporate personhood.
Which is to say, a corporation, for some reason, has all the rights that attach to a person. It is a person under the law.

Which leads to stuff like tobacco companies being able to fight advertising bans based on their "free speech rights".

Ok, people, human beings, have free speech rights.
The rights of a corporation should be zero. Zip. Nada. Government wants to ban tobacco ads. Poof! Hey presto, no more cig ads. The idea that fundamental human rights enshrined in national constitutions should apply to corporations is just, it's perverse. Frankly, if Trudeau had asked me for advice on writing the Canadian Constitution (which inexplicably he didn't), I would have said, put in the Corporate Clause, as follows:
"Corporations are not persons under the Constitution of Canada, and can claim none of the individual rights therein enumerated" or something to that effect.

The other ridiculous thing in the US is the ruling that "money = speech", thereby preventing any restrictions on campaign expenditures because to restrict the free flow of money would, bizarrely, be "restricting the freedom of speech". posted by Richard at 20:55 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)