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If money is speech, and speech is free, where's my free money? If money is speech, especially with regard to politics, lack of money is the stifling of speech
by warfangle 12y ago
If money is speech, and speech is free, where's my free money?
If money is speech, especially with regard to politics, lack of money is the stifling of speech (and to an extent, indirect disenfranchisement). Ergo, through not giving those without money any funds with which to perform their speech, the government is violating the first amendment.
- dantheman 12y agoFree speech means the government cannot stop you from speaking, not that it needs to provide you with a printing press.
- warfangle 12y agoYet by denying the capital to speak, it inherently stops you from speaking. This reducto ad absurdium is meant to illustrate that money, while necessary for a bullhorn, is not speech in and of itself.