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Political, not commercial. All politicians lie or are "economical with the truth". If you want to get the courts involved in judging political statements, espec
by 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 agoBut 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 agoCommercial 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