The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P

Re:The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P by jdub on Sunday October 11, 2015 @05:42AM (#10368722)

Citizens are people. Companies (regardless of mind-boggling US Supreme Court rulings otherwise) are not people. They are not even groups of equal people. Representative democracies represent people, not companies, and that's precisely how it should be. How companies are expected to behave in our societies should be decided by the people.

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Re:The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P by ZenoArrow on Sunday October 11, 2015 @06:26AM (#10368824)

You know what, I'm starting to think we should make use of that US Supreme Court decision and the ISDS trade rules. Activists incorporating companies in the fields they are interested in, using them as platforms to sue the government for lack of a fair market (for example, starting a renewable energy company and suing over the subsidies given to the fossil fuel industries). Perhaps that'd be an effective way to get these deals rejected or renegotiated (and that includes the existing deals containing ISDS, such as NAFTA).

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Re:The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P by twoodfin on Sunday October 11, 2015 @06:49AM (#10368873)

The New York Times is a company. Should "the people", through their elected representatives, decide what the Times can and can't print?

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Re:The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P by jdub on Sunday October 11, 2015 @09:10PM (#10371963)

Yes, and they do. That includes the First Amendment. :-)

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Re:The Corporate-Friendly World of the T.P.P by twoodfin on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:57AM (#10374884)

So some companies have First Amendment rights, but others don't?

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