Questions, questions... But the answer isn't limiting the 'free speech' of corporations.
Indeed not. The real answer is that our notion of good corporate governance -- and of corporate citizenship -- is broken, and we need to come up with a better model for running private enterprises within a larger society; one that doesn't reward sociopathic behaviour and allow them to externalize all liabilities to the public sector while avoiding paying the taxes that go towards handling those liabilities.
Shorter version: the most highly evolved vehicle of modern capitalism is broken.
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Date: 2009-01-03 11:39 am (UTC)Indeed not. The real answer is that our notion of good corporate governance -- and of corporate citizenship -- is broken, and we need to come up with a better model for running private enterprises within a larger society; one that doesn't reward sociopathic behaviour and allow them to externalize all liabilities to the public sector while avoiding paying the taxes that go towards handling those liabilities.
Shorter version: the most highly evolved vehicle of modern capitalism is broken.