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by WildUtah 3871 days ago
Alphabet's Google, as we say, was operating the car. And corporations are people, my friend.
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You know Alphabet has binder full of corporations so they can always send another one over to drive the car if the police take the current driver into custody.
> And corporations are people

Can we have at least one discussion forum where the notion of corporate personhood isn't abused into idiocy like this? Maybe here on a discussion board run by Y Combinator, a company with the mission of helping to create new corporations?

I agree that in general, this quote gets brought into the discussion rather blindly. But in this specific case, I assert (without an actual legal background) that the word "person" in this law would refer to Google and that this loophole wouldn't work.
> I assert (without an actual legal background) that the word "person" in this law would refer to Google

Of course it wouldn't.