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by tech_ken 812 days ago
Money isn't speech and corporations aren't people. I'm fine with someone using Tor to circumvent like a national content ban, I'm not fine with someone using a shell-corp to evade trust regulation or hide their involvement with a shady industry.

> "X shouldn't get to be secret because I don't think they have a legitimate reason" doesn't differentiate between these two cases.

It does differentiate because what constitutes a 'legitimate reason' for having privacy is extremely different between the contexts. An individual human has much more latitude for seeking privacy than a chunk of capital given legal status by a contract, IMO.

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> Money isn't speech and corporations aren't people.

US case law has entered the chat.