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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by parineum on Friday August 01, 2025 @07:34PM (#44763575)
> Only when it comes to rights.

"Corporations are people" means a corporation is people, not a corporation is a person.

People have rights, whether they are acting through a corporation or not. That's what Citizens United determined.

I hope you think about who misled you to thinking that "corporations are people" meant a corporation is a person and trust them a little less.

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Re:Tesla must pay $329M in damages in fatal Autopilot case, ... by lblume on Saturday August 02, 2025 @07:30AM (#44766737)
In most jurisdictions, a corporation is a juridical person[1]. When not explicitly mentioning natural persons, whether a corporation is a "person" is thus ambiguous.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juridical_person

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