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0 pointsoneplane2y ago0 comments

Because the government can put you in jail and the marketing agency can't. (I think I heard this simplified response on the Risky Business podcast)

Realistically, scraping people for their data like this should just not be allowed at all. People are more important than corporations.

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But in America, “corporations are people, my friend!”

Corporate personhood predates the formation of the United States and is not unique to the states.

The phrase I’m familiar with is Monopoly on Violence.

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0 pointsoneplane2y ago0 comments

Because the government can put you in jail and the marketing agency can't. (I think I heard this simplified response on the Risky Business podcast)

Realistically, scraping people for their data like this should just not be allowed at all. People are more important than corporations.

But in America, “corporations are people, my friend!”

Corporate personhood predates the formation of the United States and is not unique to the states.

The phrase I’m familiar with is Monopoly on Violence.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse