> I think that if the article were about linking "tor users" with their secret owners then we would see the opposite stance being taken.
Companies aren't people.
Companies aren't people.
Company = Tor client
Owner = Operator
To put it another way when a company breaks the law should its shareholders (aka owners) go to prison?
The governing body of a corporation isn't its shareholders.
If you're asking what happens if a company breaks the law, then look up VW Dieselgate. Yes, some executives were prosecuted; yes, some of them went to jail.
I'm not sure what (company) shareholders have to do with this.
The comment I replied to said this in reply to my original comment.
> But their owners are.
Shareholders are the owners, not executives.
Forfeiting dividends+penalty that were the product of illegal or negligent corporate practices seems like a reasonable start.
Stated more broadly: As far as investing in unethical and anti-consumer practices is a winner now - society would be better served if the opposite were true.
Umm, in many jurisdictions they are [almost]:
"In most countries, a corporation has the same rights as a natural person to hold property, enter into contracts, and to sue or be sued. Granting non-human entities personhood is a Western concept applied to corporations."
https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-...
https://www.purduegloballawschool.edu/blog/news/corporate-pe...
A person has rights other than to hold property, enter into contracts, and to sue or be sued.
Indeed.
In the context of this thread, how are those other rights relevant?
That a company isn't a person. We know this because a person has rights a company doesn't.
It would appear that this view is not widespread:
"In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on. The reason for the term "legal person" is that some legal persons are not people: companies and corporations are "persons" legally speaking (they can legally do most of the things an ordinary person can do), but they are not people in a literal sense (human beings)."