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I see no reason why Apple and AT&T - who are corporations, not people - should have the right to do as they please. Our government grants corporations the ability to exist because doing so is beneficial to society. If a corporation is doing something that is harmful to consumers - and potentially society as a whole - then I want the government to step in.

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Corporations are just collections of people (except for the grant of limited liability, which is really an abuse).

Too often, I think, we judge 'harmful' by the impossible standard of "could I imagine things being better if I could force others to do things exactly my way" rather than "would we be better off if they didn't exist at all."

So that is to say, sure, if a company is actually causing a harm, in the legal sense of the word (committing fraud, breaking contracts, etc.), then they should have to pay restitution for that. That's what the law is for. Not to second-guess how companies could better serve their customers.

Corporations are also legal entities that are separate from the people that comprise them, so they shouldn't have the same kind of rights an individual would.

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