[thechat] Now Corporations Claim The Right To Lie

[Madhu Menon]

http://commondreams.org/views03/0101-07.htm

 From the "we only lie to protect shareholder interests" department:

<quote>

While Nike was conducting a huge and expensive PR blitz to tell people that
it had cleaned up its subcontractors' sweatshop labor practices, an alert
consumer advocate and activist in California named Marc Kasky caught them
in what he alleges are a number of specific deceptions. Citing a California
law that forbids corporations from intentionally deceiving people in their
commercial statements, Kasky sued the multi-billion-dollar corporation.

Instead of refuting Kasky's charge by proving in court that they didn't
lie, however, Nike instead chose to argue that corporations should enjoy
the same "free speech" right to deceive that individual human citizens have
in their personal lives. If people have the constitutionally protected
right to say, "The check is in the mail," or, "That looks great on you,"
then, Nike's reasoning goes, a corporation should have the same right to
say whatever they want in their corporate PR campaigns.

</quote>

(a little long-winded)


Is this for real?

Madhu

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