Comment Re:As soon as you have anything to take (Score 1) 293
Corporations are people: living, breathing people. Corporations are comprised neither of space aliens nor of soulless robots, but of real people, organized for collective action.
Not so. Corporations are formed of money and contracts and legal structure. The entire reason for corporations to exist is to divest oneself of risk and responsibility for the actions of your investments.
When a corporation acts, it acts through people.
This is true. But those are not the people who the corporation actually represents. The shareholders are who the corporation acts as proxy for, not employees of the corporation (including executives) -- insofar as those employees and executives are acting in their role as such, and not acting as shareholders should they happen to own shares..
The key question regarding human rights, such as the right to free speech, is whether citizens must entirely surrender their right to free speech when they organize together under a corporate form.
That's not the key question. It doesn't even make sense, when divorcing the entity from the citizen is the entire purpose of incorporation. No citizen gives up their right to free speech when they invest in a corporation. The question is, why should an intangible legal entity have the same rights as a citizen?