@techblogger I've just stumbled on this piece today and I gotta say I totally feel you man... I really can't understand the basis behind it ( although I think that ,as you said, it's a mere publicity stand ) but besides that, the really dangerous thing is that by giving citizenship to robots ( TOTALLY absurd) we devalue OUR OWN citizenship.

The corporation is one of the most dangerous concepts ever invented. It has allowed people to commit all sorts of atrocious acts and hide behind a shield as they claim no responsibility for their actions...

Yeah that's a serious problem actually. I think in the past ( not quite sure though) corporations were created by charters that designated their purpose for existing and whenever they violated that charter they were dissolved. Same thing when corps were becoming stronger than they should, they would get dismantled. Although I don't trust the state in many of its affairs I TOTALLY don't trust corps in most of their affairs...