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Obviously the corporation is responsible for the acts or speeches of its tools. The question is, to what extent does a corporation have a right to free speech?

Is it? Or is the programmer responsible for the speeches of the computer, and hence does the computer's right to free speech extend from the unquestionable free speech rights of its programmer rather than the more questionable free speech rights of the company?

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> of its programmer rather than the more questionable free speech rights of the company?

How does a group of people (a "company") have fewer free speech rights than an individual? Is it that the people who make up companies have fewer free speech rights than other people?

Groups tend to have fewer free speech rights than individuals. A person can usually shout whatever he wants from a street corner; 100 people will probably need a permit and relatively few people see this as problematic.

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