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Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You?
An anonymous reader writes "The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an important case to determine whether or not AT&T deserves 'personal privacy' rights. The company claimed that the FCC should not be allowed to distribute (under a Freedom of Information Act request) data it had collected concerning possible fraud and overbilling related to the e-rate program. The FCC argued that the information should be made public and that companies had no individual right to 'personal privacy,' the way individuals do. As it stands right now, the appeals court found that companies like AT&T do deserve personal privacy rights, and now the Supreme Court will take up that question as well. Given the results of earlier 'corporation rights' cases, such as Citizens United, at some point you wonder if the Supreme Court will also give companies the right to vote directly."
Go tell that to King George. I'm sure he would have loved more simple-minded Loyalists like you [1].
This country wouldn't even *exist* if the rebels hadn't chosen to override the rule of law in favor of fighting for their freedoms. Chew on that for a while as you contemplate strict adherence to the rule of law.
The rule of law can only be respected when the law is just. It's not; it favors those with the wealth to buy the media. The law is broken, the means to change the law (via the electoral process) is broken, because the democratic political process has been undermined by capital seeking more capital.
[1] I think I'm getting the hang of using Teabagger debate techniques to undermine their arguments. Using American Revolution analogies is my new favorite anti-Teabagger technique. Not that the parent to this post is a Teabagger; I don't know. But I'll bet he sympathizes with them.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I wish I could mod you up. When we decided that packing the judiciary with people that were likely to distort the rule of law in favor of our desires we took a huge step back from genuine democracy.
*sigh*
I know it's been said before more times than I can count, but the US was never a genuine democracy, nor was it ever intended to be. A genuine democracy is pure majority rule. The US is a republic.