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Do we have freedom of press if congress can prevent us from buying a printing press (or spending money to make a movie about a politician as in Citizens United)
by delichon 7mo ago
Do we have freedom of press if congress can prevent us from buying a printing press (or spending money to make a movie about a politician as in Citizens United)? If so 1A becomes a weak constraint on government.
- pfannkuchen 7mo agoInteresting, I'm going to have to look into that case more, I realize that I have a surface level take informed by mass media here Clearly campaign material influences voters in a way that is manipulative, and some citizens having more ability than others to manipulate voters is functionally against basic democratic principles, and the current legal setup enables this to happen in a way that obviously (to me) affects election outcomes. But I don't currently have a clear line to draw in this area, I'll have to think about it more.