Got a whiff today of the debate brewing over the recent discovery that Monsanto is commenting on DKos and what should be our response. Deep down in the comments, I finally saw someone ask
Well what is the policy of DKos toward the registration of accounts to corporate entities?
I'm sure this must have come up somewhere before...
Doesn't this raise questions about corporate accountability? Can I go and register, say, Apple Computer or something and act as if I'm that company's corporate spokesperson?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that DKos, as an institution dedicated to the election of more and better Democrats (and by extension, a pro-democratic institution), ought to be comprised exclusively of actual persons, and not fake ones created by attorneys and usually kept alive far too long.
Now, if Dr. Robert T. Fraley would like to set up shop here and bring some accountability to bear, that ought to be all right. But the way I see it, Monsanto is just using you as a new, specifically-targeted disinformation medium and anti-market research.
Corporations can't have views that can compete with human views in the same venues, lacking in soul and emotions and morality as they are. Why, then, should Monsanto, or any other corporation, be allowed a seat at the table of human discourse as a corporation?
Let Monsanto's principals engage here as humans, if indeed that's what they are.