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josefx on Dec 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter suspends account tracking Maxwell trial

> I thought that the first amendment was about people rather than companies.

Any amendment written before slavery was abolished probably had a rather flexible view on the whole "people" issue. If an African American can be property then a corporation can be a person.

xanaxagoras on Dec 8, 2021 [–]

This discussion has nothing to do with race. You're obsessed.

josefx on Dec 8, 2021 | [–]

> You're obsessed.

I made one comment on this and that makes me obsessed?

> This discussion has nothing to do with race.

The claim was that it applied to people, I merely mentioned that what the law considers people is a rather flexible thing.

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