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Of course not. Facebook is a corporation; people are what have rights.
by a1369209993 7y ago
Of course not. Facebook is a corporation; people are what have rights.
- CamperBob2 7y agoSo Facebook is an organization of what, robots? Are you OK with similar rights being stripped from your hometown newspaper on the grounds that they are a "corporation", despite the explicit specification of the press as a protected entity in the First Amendment?
- otterley 7y agoAs assemblies of people, corporations have rights. In fact, the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the Government for redress of grievances is explicitly protected in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
- oldsklgdfth 7y agoIn America, corporations are people. Citizens United v. FEC
- SamWhited 7y agoThis doesn't mean what you think it means. Not all rights that attach to people attach to corporations. The bill of rights doesn't uniformly apply to corporations, and different rights may or may not attach under certain circumstances.
- a1369209993 7y agoMore importantly, the government declaring something doesn't make true. See anything from the entire Soviet Union to the various attempts to legislate that π = 3.