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If it’s a boycott ban then it’s not really freedom of speech and is more about freedom of association. (Which is still pretty well protected by US jurisprudence
by fennecfoxen 5y ago
If it’s a boycott ban then it’s not really freedom of speech and is more about freedom of association. (Which is still pretty well protected by US jurisprudence.)
- ComputerGuru 5y agoCongress has been pretty clear recently that the right to spend money (or not) is a matter of freedom of speech, not just association. See PACs.
- laverya 5y agoCongress has also been pretty clear that there's no right NOT to spend money on health insurance.
- fennecfoxen 5y agoYou refer to Citizens United and the right to spend money on things like advertisements and PACs and movies about current political candidates? Yes. But that was very speech-oriented spending. I'm not aware of jurisprudence extending the concept of "speech" to general spending decisions in the context of boycotts — but again, it's probably not necessary; freedom of association is a real freedom.