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Re:Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign by nl on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:29AM (#10497756)
Oh yeah, the corporate personhood thing. I forgot that.

But I only forgot about it because I simply don't see how that matters in an real way.

Even if corporate personhood went away then (actual, real human) people would be paid to speak for a corporation, and then you hit the the 1st Amendment rights issues again.

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Re:Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign by hackerboos on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:06PM (#10500862)
>Even if corporate personhood went away then (actual, real human) people would be paid to speak for a corporation

There are proper campaign finance laws which regulate the above. Nothing is currently regulating SuperPACs at the moment, even American divisions of foreign corporations can accept money.

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