▲ 1470 ▼ Proprietary vs Open Source Backdoors (lemy.lol) submitted 1 year ago by icegladiator@lemy.lol to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 96 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] tfm@europe.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 child) Company free speech is allowed, but there’s laws to keep them from being total asshats "Things" shouldn't have free speech - only people. It's just such a corrupt, dumb thing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children) As a non-native English speaker, I’ve assumed it meant that companies can put anything they want in their contracts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tfm@europe.pub 5 points 1 year ago No it's basically that companies can put money into politics. permalink fedilink source parent [–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago There was a court case called the 'Citizens United v FEC' that ended up ruling in favor of corporations; It said corporations and organizations and unions can 'donate' as much money as they want to political candidates i.e. legalized bribery. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (2 children) As a non-native English speaker, I’ve assumed it meant that companies can put anything they want in their contracts permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] tfm@europe.pub 5 points 1 year ago No it's basically that companies can put money into politics. permalink fedilink source parent [–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago There was a court case called the 'Citizens United v FEC' that ended up ruling in favor of corporations; It said corporations and organizations and unions can 'donate' as much money as they want to political candidates i.e. legalized bribery. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tfm@europe.pub 5 points 1 year ago No it's basically that companies can put money into politics. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago There was a court case called the 'Citizens United v FEC' that ended up ruling in favor of corporations; It said corporations and organizations and unions can 'donate' as much money as they want to political candidates i.e. legalized bribery. permalink fedilink source parent
