UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agoWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?message-squaremessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down12
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square161fedilink
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 month agoThat’s pre-21st century though.
minus-squareSailorMoss@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoIt’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month 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, tidy legal fiction for some purposes.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month 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!
That’s pre-21st century though.
It’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.
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, tidy legal fiction for some purposes.
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!