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Its not contradictory when you realize his rhetoric is about individual rights and not bot rights…

• dbbk 4y ago
  So free speech only applies to humans? I thought in the US it also applied to corporations?
  • hunterb123 4y ago
    Corporations are just groups of humans represented by a legal entity. So yes, free speech only applies to humans, lol. Do you support spam bots having rights or are you just using that to try to win your argument?
    • jasonshaev 4y ago
      In the United States, corporations have 1st amendment protections. The Supreme Court codified this in CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/08-205.html https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/08-205.html) "... holding that corporations have a First Amendment right to free speech because they are "associations of citizens" and hold the collected rights of the individual citizens who constitute them." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#:~:text=The%20corporate%20personhood,who%20constitute%20them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#:~:text=T....]
      • dragonwriter 4y ago
        > The Supreme Court codified this in CITIZENS UNITED Actually, the Supreme Court established it no later than First National Bank v. Belotti (1978), despite the frequent claim that this was an innovation in the 2009 Citizens United case.
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