> Who's this "anyone"? Why are monopolies suddenly people?

Corporations have always been legal persons, going back to the Middle Ages (guilds, chartered cities, universities) and even Ancient Rome:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person

Corporations are legal entities separate from people. They do not have the same rights and responsibilities as humans.

> They do not have the same rights and responsibilities as humans.

Opinions and precedents vary:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_person#Rights_and_respon...

From the article you linked: "There are therefore two kinds of legal entities: human and non-human. In law, a human person is called a natural person (sometimes also a physical person), and a non-human person is called a juridical person"

No where in that article does it cite a jurisdiction where a non-human legal entity has the same rights and responsibilities as a human. My point still stands that a human has a different, albeit overlapping, set of rights and responsibilities in comparison to other legal entities.

What's amazing is how many people misunderstand this, and think the government treats a legal person as a full flesh and blood person.

> Why are monopolies suddenly people?

Who else besides people would control a monopoly?

If the people running the monopoly want to lobby the government on their own time, uncompensated, that certainly sounds fine. It's lobbying on behalf of the monopoly that is an issue.

How do you avoid compensating someone on salary while lobbying on their own time?