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    1 month ago

    As a non-USAian and not a lawyer, what is the difference between power and speech? Isn’t removing the power to “speak” (donating money) not an infringement on “free speech”?

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      1 month ago

      Good question. TLDR speech is expression not capability

      Corporations are legal entities created by the government whose jurisdiction they operate. As such everything they are allowed to do is fundamentally authorized by the state that creates them.

      The video in the main link actually does a fantastic job of explaining this if you watch it through. Here is the relevant part to your question.