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by jazz9k 129 days ago
A company isn't AI or a bot. It's essentially a group of people. It should have the same rights as an individual when it comes to private property.
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Your reasoning makes sense only if it's just as easy to sentence the group to jail time as it is to sentence the individual--and pretty much everything else about a corporation is set up to make it harder to do that.
If it's an unlimited partnership or something, _maybe_. Approximately no companies implicated are, though; they're typically limited liability companies of some sort. A limited liability company demanding human rights feels a bit like having your cake and eating it.
It is not a group of people. It’s a legal entity that represents their economic interests.
There's a sizable logical jump between your second and third statements.
I'm sorry you think that.