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by infogulch 4667 days ago
I agree that this amendment would be bad, it does generate needed discussion.

What I don't like about the current state of corporation rights right now is that they can't be punished if run by halfway competent people. Case in point: patent trolls use shell companies to carry out their shenanigans while it's convenient and vaporize them the moment they're no longer convenient. Real people can't do that, if they do something wrong they can't just disappear and reappear later as a different person.

Edit: I'm not saying that patent trolls are always legally wrong (perhaps morally), they are just good examples of how vapor corporations work.