On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Mike Godwin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> First of all, you selectively quoted me, cutting out the part where I >> made it obvious that I was talking about regulations that apply to >> corporations in general. I specifically pointed out that there are >> regulations which apply to 501(c)(3) organizations. > > I hadn't understood you to be talking also about for-profit > corporations such as The New York Times Company, which (if you happen > to read the Times) you may know sometimes tries to affect the outcome > of elections.
You specifically contrasted regulations "as a corporation" with regulations "by virtue of its being a nonprofit corporation". I responded to both. You then quoted my response to the first, with information with respect to the second. > As for WMF's tax status, I'm not going to talk about that -- I simply > pointed out that 501(c) organizations are regulated. 501(c) *is a tax status*. 501(c)(3) is a subset of that tax status. >> If you prohibit corporations from attempting to influence an election, >> what's the big leap from prohibiting them from attempting to influence >> legislation? > > I'm entirely comfortable with The New York Times Company (a > corporation) and its efforts to influence the outcome of elections > (e.g., through candidate endorsements; I wouldn't want to prohibit The > New York Times Company from political speech. And fortunately, Citizens United helped protect their right to do so. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
