Vale la pena leer a Dworkin sobre el asunto. Aquí un aperitivo, pero les remito a sus comentarios:
The opinion announces and perpetuates a shallow, simplistic understanding of the First Amendment, one that actually undermines one of the most basic purposes of free speech, which is to protect democracy. The nerve of his argument—that corporations must be treated like real people under the First Amendment—is in my view preposterous. Corporations are legal fictions. They have no opinions of their own to contribute and no rights to participate with equal voice or vote in politics.
Lawrence Lessig, sin embargo, toca una nota de cautela cuando, acertadamente, nos advierte que el debate en torno a si las corporaciones tienen o no los mismos derechos, puede ser una distracción innecesaria. Después de todo, seres humanos más poderosos que corporaciones pueden tener una influencia desmesurada sobre los procesos políticos; ya sea por la influencia del dinero u otras herramientas de poder. El problema real no es tanto ese sino uno sobre el carácter de la democracia que vivimos y en torno a la vulnerabilidad del proceso político al dinero. Es decir, cuánto control vamos a permitir que los intereses incumbentes tienen sobre el proceso político, sobre el debate público, y sobre los elementos que entran (y se excluyen) en la consideración de asuntos vitales de política pública. Aquí la referencia, y una cita, de Lessig:
Lots of people are talking about, how do we overturn Citizens United? But overturning Citizens United or getting back to the day before Citizens United is no solution to the problem. We already had a broken democracy before Citizens United came down. And I’m worried that there’s a lot of distraction around this issue, in Citizens United, because I don’t think the problem is corporate speech. I think the problem is corporate control. I don’t think the problem is lots of different diversity of perspectives or viewpoints in the context of political debate. It’s when that perspective or a particular powerful influence begins to be so powerful that you understand members of Congress are spending their time dancing to the tune that this powerful interest wants, rather than worrying about what their constituents want, because as members need to raise money or need to raise support for their campaigns, this becomes a debilitating distraction.



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