Until Trump gets congress to monkey with the law, truth (and even belief of what the truth is) is a defense against libel and slander.

So good luck with that.

It's happened in plenty of places, including where I live in Indiana. Right-of-way access was given to fiber companies here and those companies as eating Comcast's lunch in those areas.

Really what is sounds like to me is that Comcast wants all the advantages of their government granted monopoly and none of the requirements.

It's time to cut government granted monopolies loose. The Comcast deal with real competition in all areas. The don't seem to be able to deal with it in any other area, so now they have chosen the court system.

I am tired of hearing about how great corporatism is when the "free market" is thrown out the window and companies like this go whining to the courts and to their reps when things do not go their way. If they want to champion corporatism let them die from it as well.

In a country where Labor what the amount of power they deserve this happens. You see, the US is *not* a free market country. Labor banding together is logical if the market is free.

This would only mean something if Trumpists DIDN'T have contempt for working people.

I get scoffed at regularly when talking about the negative tax-rate multinationals, but it happens way more often than most anyone thinks. Guaranteed tax refunds mean that a lot of companies, like GE and Boeing, are actually getting paid to work in the US and it's a matter of public record.

I think the gun pointing to their head is the need to eat and have somewhere to live.

The constant whine about regulations when as a country we pretty much allow our large corporations to get away with anything is rather tiresome.

The executives and management should be held personally responsible

Though I agree in this case, this is a dangerous line of thinking — not entirely unlike blaming a rape victim for wearing too short a skirt...

This is the worst simile I have EVER seen on Slashdot. That's saying a lot.

The corporate CxOs are NOT the victim in this scenario. The corporate worshipers on /. and the Internet love to tell us that the executives deserve huge pay packets because they are responsible. However in *every case* when something happens that hurts thousands of people they are always don't know what happened. Executives hold responsibility and deserve what they are paid or they don't know what is going on and they are overpaid. You can't have it both ways.

The CxOs were the benefactors of the malfeasance. Calling them rape victim is idiotic.

The corporate death penalty, i.e. the loss of charter, needs to be a thing. The possibility of all the stock becoming worthless would be a great tool in getting corporations to actually follow the law.

However since we have a congress that is OWNED by corporations there isn't a way for it to happen.

So your solution seems to be shut up and know your place. THAT is typical of the right.

Conflating people who show up for peaceful protest and people who are attracted to those protests to riot isn't illegal, but it is stupid.

This is a bullshit rationalization of course. The constitution does NOT say that groups of people equals an individual.

...is why most people are not on the 4 day work week. The numbers don't lie and the numbers say we are more productive than ever before.

What are the economic factors that are leading us to work longer rather than shorter? That's the better question. It's also the question that those that do reap the benefits of all that work do not want you to ask.

No where in the constitution are corporate rights mentioned. The current right press for corporate rights in a big way. Also Scalia, who was billed as a "strict constitutionalist" creamed his pants over corporate rights.

Until the idea that somehow corporations have rights that are equal to the rights of humans (which ARE in the constitution) then the idea that ANY of these people are strict constitutionalist is a joke.