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A person exercises their freedom of speech when they say whatever they want. The advertisement is when somebody is paid to say something with implication that t
by anonymfus 6y ago
A person exercises their freedom of speech when they say whatever they want. The advertisement is when somebody is paid to say something with implication that they don't want to say that, as otherwise they would not be paid. So advertisement is an opposite of the freedom of speech.
P. S.: I am watching the video and Tom Scott gives a very similar definition of advertisement at 3:44, and basically the whole video is about how that logic is applied in British and American laws.
P. P. S.: I am now at the last section "The Land Of The Free" (24:47) where Tom Scott talks specifically about freedom of speech in US, and basically everything in this thread is brought up by him.