Yes, this is a highly controversial debate, including within the digital rights and civil society communities.
While the EFF basically sides with big tech, EPIC and others take a different position.
I generally believe that the expansion of corporate "speech" rights in the US has generally proven to be a disaster for democracy, from Citizen United to the impossibility to pass privacy or data protection legislation (because digital mass profiling and personal data sales is corporate "speech").
Wolfie Christl /
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