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The money is speech legal argument never made sense to me. The thing about speech is that no one has more of it than anyone else.
by wmeredith 9y ago
The money is speech legal argument never made sense to me. The thing about speech is that no one has more of it than anyone else.
- SamReidHughes 9y agoThen let's shut down CNN and all the newspapers.
- zanny 9y agoWhile it is true pretty much every major TV network and newspaper exists solely based on state bias and special privilege to get them where they are now, you aren't mandated to consume any of them. At least with the Internet speech is as restricted as you want to let it be - at least until Ajit Pai gets his way. The millions who like being misled by mainstream big money media are doing it wilfully at least. They believe what they want to believe. The only problem I see is how many of them have never been presented with an objective choice between being rational and skeptical versus blind trust of major brands that were pressed upon them from youth.
- whiddershins 9y agoThink about making a movie. Is it speech? I would say so. Does it tend to happen at a quality level for free? Empirically no. Once I've made my movie, would trying to tell people about it be considered speech? I would say yes. Does that typically happen for free? I would say empirically no. This is a simple example of the argument, and in fact the one that went before the supreme court.