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It is an interesting situation, which can make people seem inconsistent in their views depending on how they feel about other issues like Net Neutrality, government, capitalism, taking a knee, free speech, hate speech, fake news, and so on.
For me, while it doesn't meet the definition of free speech on paper, I do see it as censorship, and deeply troubling. This is big business silencing the little guy, using the same tools meant to protect individuals from governments.
Corporate Personhood gives big business the same basic rights as individuals - speech, religion, and so on. They have gamed the system: offshore tax havens, Temporary Foreign Worker programs, market collusion (Rogers/Bell/Telus/Shaw), deregulation, etc. They get all the benefits, without any of the responsibility. When you couple those protections with the massive wealth and influence to make governments do their bidding, the rest of us have little chance to improve.
"It's their business, they can run it how they please" is exactly the attitude which has allowed them to shirk their societal responsibilities and created the rapidly widening wealth gap. I would add "It's their government, they can run it how they please."
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