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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by dragonwriter on Monday April 22, 2019 @07:09PM (#19723983)
> However, this same term is used politically to give corporations the right to free speech

No, it's a different term that is spelled and pronounced the same (that is, it's a different legal sense of “person”, which courts have found corporations to qualify for for completely different reasons.)

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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by brianberns on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:19PM (#19731915)
I can't tell if you're serious. If so, do you really think that makes my statement fundamentally incorrect somehow?
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