But, with a political coalition, people join the coalition in order to promote the mission of the coalition. With a corporation, people join the corporation in order to get paid, not in order to promote the viewpoints of the corporation. When you conflate the two objectives of profit and social decision-making, you're implicitly encouraging people to sell out their values. That's not democratic.<p>You are also downplaying the difference between a group of people and a corporation. A corporation is when group of people place some of their rights and responsibilities into an artificial entity, in order to promote its own interests and shield the creators from a certain amount of responsibility. Why must this political-economic golem be given the right to free speech? My contention is that the right to free speech of the creators and shareholders is completely sufficient. Giving the controlling shareholders access to non-controlling capital to promote their own viewpoints is troublesome because it causes several interests to conflict that don't need to.