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		gumby on Feb 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Telecoms say they have a First Amendment right to ... Corporations are simply machines operated by humans much as an automobile, lawnmower, or piano is. None of those items have rights either.

buckminster on Feb 20, 2020 [–]

For better or worse, reams of corporate law exist to make this not true.

Your piano, for example, can't employ me.

blaser-waffle on Feb 20, 2020 | [–]

A piano isn't liable when it falls out of a window and crushes you, Loony Toons style.

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