Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by dbbk on Monday April 25, 2022 @09:57AM
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They are not. His position is entirely contradictory.
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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by tested23 on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:00AM
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Its not contradictory when you realize his rhetoric is about individual rights and not bot rights…
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by dbbk on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:05AM
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So free speech only applies to humans? I thought in the US it also applied to corporations?
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by hunterb123 on Monday April 25, 2022 @02:33PM
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Corporations are just groups of humans represented by a legal entity.
So yes, free speech only applies to humans, lol.
Do you support spam bots having rights or are you just using that to try to win your argument?
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by jasonshaev on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:40PM
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In the United States, corporations have 1st amendment protections. The Supreme Court codified this in CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/08-205.html)
"... holding that corporations have a First Amendment right to free speech because they are "associations of citizens" and hold the collected rights of the individual citizens who constitute them." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#:~:text=T....]
Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
by dragonwriter on Monday April 25, 2022 @03:54PM
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> The Supreme Court codified this in CITIZENS UNITED
Actually, the Supreme Court established it no later than First National Bank v. Belotti (1978), despite the frequent claim that this was an innovation in the 2009 Citizens United case.