So fears over Citizens United was GREATLY overblown, yes?

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Soleron said:

kanageddaamen said:
it doesn't matter whose speech it is (including corporations)

As an hardcore free speech supporter: Corporations should not be natural persons or have rights. Individuals in the corporation should be able to say what they like. There IS a big difference.

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The practical problem with Citizens United is that billions of dollars were wasted on the election and the nation/news attention was sucked away for a year and a half out of a four year cycle. That's not grounds for reversing it (the Constitution not protecting corporations is) but from the outside it looks like insanity. Our elections are low-key and dull.

The constitution does no prohibit limiting speech only for natural people, or even "general" people.  It protects the speech in general.  "Abridging the freedom of speech..." implies all speech, and saying it does not apply to corporations IS abridging the freedom of speech.

Even if it didn't, what justification is there to limit speech for a corporation?

On top of that, how was money "wasted," it was directly injected into our economy