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Yes, corporations are not people, and do not get rights, period. They're legal fictions that get privileges that we the people grant them.

If you want to represent yourself commercially as a person, your rights as a person can be extended to that legal fiction.

If you want legal fiction that you can dump when it's convenient and isn't tied to you as a person, then that legal fiction gets no rights and only certain privileges.



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