Under Citizens United logic only corporations merit full legal rights

Evidence

The logic of Citizens United—deferral to internet access notwithstanding—is that to be worthy of full rights and abilities under law one must be a corporation. In today’s hierarchy of value between citizens and persons, a corporation ranks higher than so-called “natural” persons. — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 386

Categorization

• XREF: This is the causal premise that drives the whole Corpocene thesis: the law pushes individuals into the corporate form. — connects to: US courts interpret the First Amendment to protect data gathering as corporate free speech. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 550; Citizens United turns neoliberal rationality into a constitutional hermeneutic governing law. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 328; Corporations are reframed as a disenfranchised minority deserving rights — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 336