[kwlug disc.] Microsoft in trouble for wanting Wikipedia edits

[Rick]

Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net> writes:
> ... MS had the ability to rebuff the criticisms, just not
> as directly as they would have liked. 
>
> Wikipedia doesn't allow fluff pieces with an obvious bias. MS believed
> that the criticisms were written by IBM. Sounds like Wikipedia get's
> to be judge and jury on their own site, and ruled that the original
> articles didn't have an obvious  bias.

Thinking about this situation a bit more made me think of the
documentary _The Corporation_. The theme of that movie is about the
nature of corporations. Apparently, corporations are, in legal terms,
an artificial person with the full legal rights of a human, such as
free speech. Then the movie goes on to argue that corporations are, by
design, psychopaths. Psychopaths are purely self-interested people who
are incapable of empathy.

Anyway, I wonder if the growth of non-governmental public forums might
start to strip corporations of some of their rights.
Demoting corporations from being people and back to just being things.