UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?message-squaremessage-square158fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down12
arrow-up181arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square158fedilink
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·4 months agoThat’s pre-21st century though.
minus-squareSailorMoss@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·4 months agoIt’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-24 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, tidy legal fiction for some purposes.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 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!
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!