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Re: Free Speech, again
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:27:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:

  But I don't accept that a corporation has an opinion, nor can any
executive of that company have a pure opinion regarding the company.
Everything, in effect, must be taken as an effort to serve the bottom line,
since that's the whole purpose of a corporation.  As such, any material
distributed externally by the corporation--and relating to the
corporation--becomes a form of sales literature.  I know that financial
entities are required to work that way, for example.


Suppose you were right... So what? This case isn't about free speech the way
I read it. It's about false advertising. If it would be wrong for you as a
person to deny you owned a sweatshop when actually you did, it owuld be
wrong for Nike to do so as well.



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(...) But I don't accept that a corporation has an opinion, nor can any executive of that company have a pure opinion regarding the company. Everything, in effect, must be taken as an effort to serve the bottom line, since that's the whole purpose (...) (22 years ago, 23-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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