UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 days 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 · 8 days agomessage-square161fedilink
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·8 days agoThat’s pre-21st century though.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-26 days 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-squareSailorMoss@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·8 days agoIt’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 days 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.
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’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!