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Terrible precedent it may be yet the idea that software is speech is probably even worse. You can’t just equate software with speech because to prevent an outc
by DSingularity 6y ago
Terrible precedent it may be yet the idea that software is speech is probably even worse. You can’t just equate software with speech because to prevent an outcome you dislike.
- nickles 6y agoThe Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that software is speech in Bernstein v United States. The precedent already exists. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
- DSingularity 6y agoI will acquiesce to that argument if we were discussing the government attempting to prevent tiktok from open sourcing their implementation. It is a stretch, however, to present this decision as a precedent preventing the government from regulating application markets.
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