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Re:Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potenti... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:02PM (#24077581)
> first amendment was written when the idea of a corporation as large and powerful as Facebook was unthinkable

The First Amendment was adopted in 1791 [1]. The Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602 [2]. The British East India Company even earlier [3].

Massively powerful global corporations pre-date the United States by a century.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company#/media/Fi...

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