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> In the US, spam is protected speech, but as always, no company is required to give anybody a platform. Commercial speech in the US is not protected speech an
by null0ranje 4y ago
> In the US, spam is protected speech, but as always, no company is required to give anybody a platform.
Commercial speech in the US is not protected speech and may be subject to a host of government regulation [0]. The government has broad powers to regulate the time, place, and content of commercial speech in ways that it does not for ordinary speech.
[0] See https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/commercial_speech https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/commercial_speech
- gorbachev 4y agoNot all spam is commercial. In fact, US legislators specifically made political spam legal in the CAN-SPAM bill.