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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by psyc on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:09PM (#29770614)
Twitter is not a conscious being, and cannot experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed. I support maximal liberty for humans, and appropriate protection of those humans from corporations as well as the government. Corporations may be collections of people, but they're a lot more than that - which makes them not human - and in any case they are not loci of experience.
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by Jeema101 on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:12PM (#29770667)
"The majority ruled that the Freedom of the Press clause of the First Amendment protects associations of individuals in addition to individual speakers, and further that the First Amendment does not allow prohibitions of speech based on the identity of the speaker. Corporations, as associations of individuals, therefore have free speech rights under the First Amendment. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by forty on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:12PM (#29770663)
Some users might like a platform where saying obviously false things and potentially dangerous things is not allowed and I don't know why Twitter should not be allowed to provide them with this.
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by mistermann on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:24PM (#29770840)
They have a fair amount of work to do to achieve that goal.
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by gpu_explorer on Sunday January 02, 2022 @12:47PM (#29771239)
By this logic, your family is also not a conscious being and cannot experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed. Or maybe you have a girlfriend or a boyfriend and a group of friends. Are these groups also unable to experience the subjective feeling of being oppressed?
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Re:Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Acc... by psyc on Sunday January 02, 2022 @04:03PM (#29773846)
That's right. But they are able to have what we call a shared experience, which is a little different. However it isn't relevant here, because the shared experience of all the employees of a corporation is not the basis for the legal personhood of corporations. And what is the basis?

class Corporation : public Person

It's for the same reason mediocre OOP programmers use inheritance to borrow some partial implementation. It gets the job done, even if it doesn't quite fit.

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