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[The Truman Show] What are the legal ramifications of corporations being allowed to adopt, raise, and keep people in simulated environments?

In order for the Truman Show to exist, laws had to be enacted that would allow private organizations to adopt and keep people. While we know one corporation used these laws to adopt Truman and air his life, what could other corporations do with these laws?
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Technically speaking, since the Citizens United decision, corporations are classified as having the same legal rights as a person. It’s a distorted interpretation of the fourteenth amendment upheld by the Supreme Court. So, legally speaking, a corporation could, in theory, adopt a baby and raise them how they see fit, as long as it didn’t break any child endangerment laws and cared for them properly, sent them to school, even if it was all simulated for an audience, like the Truman Show. This is part of what makes that movie a terrifying dystopian film, even if it’s portrayed as a comedy.