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by ballballball 965 days ago
Ahhh... The old "corporations are people" equivocation.
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We had a post about that a few months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36732729

In the US, corporations have the same rights as people because they are collectively made up from people.

In the EU, corporations have fewer rights than the individuals that collectively make them up.

In other countries, different rules apply de jure or de facto.

People’s main complaint about corporations is that no one personally gets hit with a civil charge and civil charges never seem to change the behavior of corporations.