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The "left's" position is that both are free speech. Free speech means that someone is allowed to engage in speech, not that they are immune from the social or
by gamblor956 4y ago
The "left's" position is that both are free speech.
Free speech means that someone is allowed to engage in speech, not that they are immune from the social or market consequences for their speech.
The "left's" contention with Citizens United was that spending money was treated as speech. But spending money is not speech. It's an act. Speech is content.
- rayiner 4y ago> The "left's" contention with Citizens United was that spending money was treated as speech. But spending money is not speech. It's an act. Speech is content. Citizens United involved creating and distributing a movie about Hilary Clinton. Spending money was incidental to the speech. Twitter spends money on its platform too. Does that give the government power to regulate what Twitter publishes?