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I believe we have not done this for a while, so in the light of the new #WebEnvironmentIntegrity shenanigans, can I have a hearty "Fuck Google" please? 
Google's Saudi investors get a lot of blame for Google "captive consumers" policies. And yes, Mohammed bin Salman is 100% in favor of willingly buying companies to erode American democracy.
However, people overlook how Goggle willingly took investment dollars from a murderous thug.
Google willingly obeys the dictates of its oil despotic investors.
American corporation are willingly betraying democracy to foreign enemies
@rysiek@mstdn.social> American corporation are willingly betraying democracy to foreign enemies
Hah, I wrote about this, kinda, a decade ago:
https://rys.io/en/55.html
("this" being having moral expectations towards corporations)
Bear with me. I know the following is a stretch, but...
The Supreme Court of The US were bribed by #KochNetwork to confer "personhood" on corporations.
They established a legal principle with interesting implications.
With "personhood" comes the other unenumerated expectations, duties, & responsibilities of "being people".
That includes moral standards, a standard of ethics, etc that exist for humans.
This includes criminal, and not civil, penalties for breaking the law.
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Currently, corporations can commit murder & pay a fine or settle a lawsuit & consider it a "cost of doing business" and keep murdering.
People aren't allowed to pay fines and continue their lawbreaking. That's two tiered justice.
If corporations are "people" they should get equal application of the law.
Including being prosecuted criminally for murder, for example.
The oil industry is murdering the people who live on this planet through climate change and climate denialism.
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Corporations fund disinformation that is prolonging a pandemic.
Corporations fund malign influence campaigns to elect anti-vaxxer conmen like RFK Jr. to public office.
They fund politicians to withhold medical care. How is that different than a mobster hiring a hitman to poison the water supply?
Does this include paying taxes like a "person"? Voting like a "person" ie 1 vote only?
Corporations want to pick & choose which aspects of "personhood" apply, when real people can't.
@Npars01 yes, that's kind of the point I am making in my ancient blog post as well. If corporations want the benefits of "personhood", they must be made to face the downsides.
#KochNetwork wants to create legal precedents for feudalistic high and low justice for corporations.
Their efforts to create oligarchical corporate "super citizens", as they are attempting with Trump as a "unitary executive", are ominous
Similar to the impunity from the law that existed for monarchs & the aristocracy, "corporations as people" has consequences.
@Npars01 @rysiek Ironically, the precedent used by the conservative justices to give personhood to corporations was from an old case that was settled with the railroads in the 1800's I believe where a court clerk falsely posted the wrong outcome. Any legal scholar knows of this and would have been aghast at using this precedent.