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Re:Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly by cbd1984 on Friday November 13, 2015 @05:48AM (#10559104)
> And corporations are people

Can we have at least one discussion forum where the notion of corporate personhood isn't abused into idiocy like this? Maybe here on a discussion board run by Y Combinator, a company with the mission of helping to create new corporations?

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Re:Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly by afarrell on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:24PM (#10562185)
I agree that in general, this quote gets brought into the discussion rather blindly. But in this specific case, I assert (without an actual legal background) that the word "person" in this law would refer to Google and that this loophole wouldn't work.
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Re:Google self-driving car pulled over for driving too slowly by cbd1984 on Saturday November 14, 2015 @02:29PM (#10566873)
> I assert (without an actual legal background) that the word "person" in this law would refer to Google

Of course it wouldn't.

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