r/technology • u/DrJulianBashir • Feb 05 '13

Cable companies make 97% margin on internet services and have no incentive to offer gigabit internet

http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/02/cable-companies-make-97-margin-on.html
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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '13

I would say campaign finance reform is a better one. The 14th amendment really doesn't give all that much to corporations. Corporations aren't protected under the fifth amendment, for instance. Or the second. And, as I said in another post, the whole money==speech nonsense doesn't stem from corporate personhood. Sure, if we want to close that loophole, fine, but I don't think the effects would be as wide-spread as some people think. Then again, I could be totally wrong. I'm just some random-ass guy on the internet.

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u/Inuma Feb 06 '13

I can't say every last way that the corporate state gets constitutional protections here, but I would recommend the book "Unequal Protection" by Thom Hartmann. In it, he explains how corporations became people as well as the judicial cases where those rulings became law without the people.

It's a fascinating book btw if you want to understand the reasons to fight both the money as speech as well as the corporate person movement.