Re: Is Microsoft Trampling on First Amendment

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 10:52 AM 12/13/98 -0500, Rob Marqusee wrote:
 
>MS cannot trample anyone's First Amendment Rights -  it is a corporation,
>and the Constitution does not apply to restrain the actions of a
>corporation or any citizen (i.e., it is only meant to restrain Govt
>actions).

She did not put it as well as she might have. While a corporation can't 
trample on a person's First Amendment rights, it can attempt to incite
the government -- in particular, the courts -- to make them moot. The 
courts are not bound by the First Amendment, which begins, "Congress
shall make no law...."

--Brett