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Then super PACs are what again?

• cmdkeen 10y ago
  Political, not commercial. All politicians lie or are "economical with the truth". If you want to get the courts involved in judging political statements, especially in a country that has already politicised the courts to a greater extent than many other Western countries, then you're on a hiding to nothing.
  • SolarNet 10y ago
    But the money that funds PACs can come from commercial activities. If all a company has to do is create a PAC, and PACs don't need to be truthful, it seems to me commercial speech is protected.
    • icebraining 10y ago
      Commercial speech is not defined by its funding or by whether it's said by a PAC, but by whether it "proposes a commercial transaction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech