Are corporations people? Options

[thekohser]

A Wikipedia essay that tried to extend WP:BLP protections to articles about corporations was recently burned and scattered to the wind -- the "public" reason being the essay was created by a banned user. I think the "private" reason is one more familiar to us, though -- such a policy would fly in the face of Wikipedia's real purpose as the world's largest online defamation platform.

How can you tweak Crisco's nose, if you're going to be subjected to duty of care policies about corporations?!

Anyway, I have asked three administrators if they would issue me the contents of the deleted essay. One has refused, while the other two have not responded.

Is there a functional admin somewhere who could reproduce here the contents of the deleted essay?

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[Jon Awbrey]

Thom Hartmann • Unequal Protection

• How Corporations Became “People” — and How You Can Fight Back
• Introduction : The Battle to Save Democracy
• Part I. Corporations Take Over
• Chapter 1. The Deciding Moment?
• Chapter 2. The Corporate Conquest of America

The legal rights of the defendant, Loan Company, although it be a corporation, soulless and speechless, rise as high in the scales of law and justice as those of the most obscure and poverty-stricken subject of the state.

— Excerpt from the judge’s ruling in Brannan v. Schartzer, 25 Ohio Dec. 491 (1915)

Evidently, quite a bit higher …

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