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The First Amendment says the cops won't bust down your door for saying something. It has exactly zero bearing on whether or not that same speech results in you
by coredog64 10y ago
The First Amendment says the cops won't bust down your door for saying something. It has exactly zero bearing on whether or not that same speech results in you being unemployed or unemployable, having your romantic partner leave you, or being shunned by greater society.
As for Citizens United, you do realize that before the decision affirmed it that corporations were understood to have 1A rights? What has people upset is that the "wrong" kind of corporations have those rights. It was okay when it was friendly media companies, unions, or non-profits with the correct ideology. But let some chunk of people with extreme Clinton Derangement Syndrome band together and "whoah Nellie!"?