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Isn't this super illegal? Who are the lawyers at these companies who are signing off on these projects?

• throwaway5752 8y ago
  No. Using that data might be. In any case, it's only illegal if the Supreme Court interprets it to be illegal. If you have been following the recent years of Supreme Court decisions/dissents it will not be comforting.
  • icebraining 8y ago
    Can you point to the cases that concern you? I haven't been following it closely enough.
    • throwaway5752 8y ago
      I'm sorry, I can't right now in detail. The general trend started with Citizens United and followed through Masterpiece is a increased set of precedents for corporate personhood, with some harsh dissents from the Alito/Thomas/Gorsuch contingent in cases where that was at issue (but corp. personhood side lost). When Kennedy retires and of Kavanaugh is his replacement, that will give put an awful lot on Robert's judgement as the swing decision. If I'm really getting picky, the lack of consistency in Trump v Hawaii and the Masterpiece case shows a certain amount of prioritizing partisan concerns over logical consistency (imo, ianal). edit: taking corporate personhood to logical extremes reverses a lot prior precedent and I would have doubted it would have happened until recently.
• kevin_b_er 8y ago
  What would be illegal? As long as corporate profit is viewed as more important than human health and safety, there will be no laws against such things. The Republican-controlled supreme court likes to rule that corporate "rights", due to corporate personhood, cannot be contained or curtailed in favor of human ones.