[InclinedPlane]

The New York Times is a corporation. Planned Parenthood is a corporation. The NAACP is a corporation. How do you decide which corporations have a right to speak and which don't? You may think it's easy to say, but the reality is that once you give any group the power to muzzle one corporation over others there will inevitably be abuses of that power due to the biases of the people wielding the power.

Better not to give government that power at all. It may leave room for people you don't like to do things you don't like but freedom is messy.

[joubert]

Isn't the Federal Government our (the citizens of the US) representative?

Constitution preamble: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

[Semiapies]

"Isn't the Federal Government our (the citizens of the US) representative?"

And so...?

[joubert]

Well, since the government is the representative of people, then when you say "Better not to give government that power at all", what does that imply?

[InclinedPlane]

It implies that the coercive power of the collective (as materialized in the form of "government") must necessarily be limited in order to preserve individual liberty.

[Semiapies]

I don't know where you're going. What do you mean it implies?