In a sense, that really *does* limit speech – the speech of the corporation’s officers and even by extension its shareholders.[/quote]
No, it really *does/did* not limit their speech – companies could form PAC’s which had almost no restrictions in that regard.
Leading up to this decsion corporate interests excercised free speech with a bull horn and real people a wisper – now these real people have also been struck with laryngitis.
Corporations may be comprised of, but they are NOT a person (that seems pretty obvious to me).