Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

Re:Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty pro... by geofft on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @02:53AM (#24834557)

But the companies are under no obligation to include this information. If they are legally forbidden from including it, how does it become a violation of my rights as a practitioner when it is not a violation for them to just not bother?

Though maybe bringing in religion makes this distracting... Do you think a state government may permissibly make a law banning the sale of transgender flags? You're still free to make your own or even sell them as individuals.

Or maybe more directly to Citizen's United - can the government ban all non-indie films that negatively depict the military? Individuals have a free speech right to make whatever films they want, but do corporations?

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Re:Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty pro... by rayiner on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @07:47AM (#24836243)

This is the basic problem with the government’s case in Citizens United. There is no real limiting principle to the law; the government actually prosecuted a dinky little non-profit, not a giant corporation, making for a fantastic test case; and the government admitted at oral argument before the Supreme Court that there was no limiting principle to its theory of the first amendment that would keep the government from banning books.

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