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A comment on Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler. Parent comment

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by sangnoir on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:18AM (#25712254)
> We must decide if that needs to change.

This will require either amending the constitution to strip companies of their 1A rights, OR the supreme court ruling that companies are not people and have no 1A rights. Both are tall orders in my view, with far-reaching direct and 2nd-order effects.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by throwaway3699 on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:10PM (#25719895)
Not necessarily. The phone company can't cut you off for what you said on the phone.
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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by krzyk on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:39AM (#25713699)
> supreme court ruling that companies are not people

Wait, in the US companies are considered people?

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by sangnoir on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:01PM (#25718202)
I was channeling Mitt Romney ("Corporations are people, my friend"[1]). But companies, trusts, PACs, SuperPACs, country clubs, HOA's, etc are legal persons. The supreme court ruled all persons (birthed or incorporated) have free speech rights, and additionally, money is free speech[2].

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-says-cor...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckley_v._Valeo

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by umanwizard on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:17AM (#25713949)
No, but they are collections of people and as such have certain rights.
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