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Right To Free Speech
Corporations are not Human Corporations should not have the right to free speech. The people who own them and the people who work for them already have those rights. If corporations had the right to free speech, the instances of libel and slander would probably increase greatly. Allowing corporations the right to say or publish anything they want would be socially irresponsible.
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