UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agoWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?message-squaremessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square148fedilink
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoThat’s pre-21st century though.
minus-squareSailorMoss@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoIt’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoNegative. Corporate personhood predates Citizens United v. FCC (which is what I assume you’re referring to). IMO: The ruling itself still counts as an answer to the original question though!
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoAccording to someone else in here, it was 19th, and that sounds right to me. I’m guessing early 19th. It’s just a neat legal fiction for some purposes.
That’s pre-21st century though.
It’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.
it was 2010
Negative. Corporate personhood predates Citizens United v. FCC (which is what I assume you’re referring to). IMO: The ruling itself still counts as an answer to the original question though!
According to someone else in here, it was 19th, and that sounds right to me. I’m guessing early 19th.
It’s just a neat legal fiction for some purposes.