By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/04/2026These nonhuman "persons" have been a feature of our legal system since the late 19th century, when the Supreme Court found that the 14th Amendment's "Equal Protection" clause could be applied to a railroad. 4/ 130 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/04/2026In the 150-some years since, corporate personhood has monotonically expanded, most notoriously through cases like *Hobby Lobby*, which gave a corporation the right to discriminate against women on the grounds that it shared its founders' religious opposition to abortion. 5/ 130 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/04/2026And, of course, in *Citizens United*, which found that corporate personhood meant that corporations had a constitutional right to divert their profits to bribe politicians. 6/ 130 0
