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Comment by pclmulqdq

21 days ago

"Your community could decide" is not freedom in the American political sense. In US political theory, the unit of freedom is the individual, full stop.

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nulbyte  21 days ago

I've seen this retort elsewhere. It's not true. It's why corporations are persons with first amendment and other freedoms.

  • pclmulqdq  21 days ago

    Corporations are not actually persons. You should read the Citizens United opinion if that's what you think it meant.

    Corporate owners are people engaging in voluntary transactions. Their freedom was essentially the question in Citizens United. "Corporations are people" emerged from the media as an oversimplified version.