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Re: Thursday, March 18, 2004
Conservatives and libertarians (especially libertarians) are eager to call anybody who believes in regulating the corporate exercise of power a bomb-throwing bolshevik. They equate free markets with free people. I suspect the opposite is often closer to the truth. As you pointed out, the people who serve corporations view speech as content, and all the rest. That simply emphasizes an old, old observation: corporations aren't people. Corporations are nothing like people. That corporate values turn out to be nothing like human values, that they sometimes come into conflict with human values isn't odd, it's inevitable. And it isn't strange that when they conflict, corporations will use all the resources at their disposal to achieve their goals and suppress their opponent. To do otherwise would be to violate their vow of stewardship over their investors' money. That their opponent happens to be us matters not a bit. Corporations aren't people. But it does tell us what sensible people should do: keep corporate power in check.
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