Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Citizens United

[TheKentuckian]

39. I think that legal constructs like corporations should be limited by charter to what their reach and

purposes are and as such their obligations to the public. They in no way need to be created equal.

I also see little need for money to be converted to speech or the reverse.

I can also consider that perhaps news should be non-profit, it used to be non-revenue divisions of for profit companies. The profit motive seems to lead to distortion and misinformation anyway.

I do agree that a lot of folks have drastically over simplified this by ignoring the complex civil liberties issues that lie under the surface here just as the regressives on the court ignored a duty to civil liberties of the individual citizens in giving the corporations an unlimited megaphone powered by money to the point of drowning out our speech.

I thinks specific rules, purposes of existence, obligations not only to stockholders but to the community, and revocation of charter would go a long way in mitigating this. Legal constructs would then have to stay on mission or dissolve and form a new corporation, under a new charter, for a new mission.

A corporation is not an android, an artificial biological, or a form of artificial intelligence. They are not only natural persons, they are not persons of any sort. They have no form of intelligence, they are not sentient, they have no desires, they have no self awareness, they have no corporeal form nor do they ever have a thought, instinct, or even programming. Corporations are strictly a legal construct that enhances the ability of actual beings to work toward common cause while typically reducing the accountability of the actual beings that participate in the organization.

GE can never show up somewhere, GE doesn't have a single opinion, GE does not consume or create waste, GE does not draw a breath, eat a meal, or drink a drop. Take away the actual beings and GE, a union, a newspaper, or whatever it is will do nothing.
Until GE demonstrates self awareness, intelligence, and shows any hint of sentience I'm going to reject personhood out of hand. A person? A corporation isn't even a being. There are far better arguments for elephant personhood than a piece of paper granted by a court.