UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?message-squaremessage-square160linkfedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down12
arrow-up182arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the worst invention of the 21st century?UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square160linkfedilink
minus-square_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoThat’s pre-21st century though.
minus-squareSailorMoss@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 year agoIt’s a bad enough idea we don’t need anymore for the next few centuries.
minus-squareCanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 year 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 year 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!