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We know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
We know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
We know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
A post written on a computer or other internet connected device that you spent money on. NY Times spends hundreds of millions putting out its material.
Spending money for a internet connection on or paying for a paper=speech?
Absolutely.
Spending money is an economic transaction. The act of communicating a message is speaking. You have the right to communicate a message. Buying something is not communicating a message, and regardless of what method you choose to use to communicate it, you're still communicating it. Even if certain methods are unavailable to you (like they are to every last one of us), other methods are available. Spending money is a wholly different thing than speaking.
In a nutshell, NO!
Quick question. If I have more $$$ to spend on ****, does that mean I have more "speech"? If I can only buy one car but then someone else can purchase 3 cars and 4 houses what does that mean?
NY Times clearly engages in 'more' speech than me in practically every conceivable measure of course.
Spending money is an economic transaction. The act of communicating a message is speaking. You have the right to communicate a message. Buying something is not communicating a message, and regardless of what method you choose to use to communicate it, you're still communicating it. Even if certain methods are unavailable to you (like they are to every last one of us), other methods are available. Spending money is a wholly different thing than speaking.
In a nutshell, NO!
We know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
We know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
Quick question. If I have more $$$ to spend on ****, does that mean I have more "speech"? If I can only buy one car but then someone else can purchase 3 cars and 4 houses what does that mean?
Sorry, this makes absolutely no sense. "Buying something is not communicating a message, and regardless of what method you choose to use to communicate it, you're still communicating it."
I think you need to try that again.
1) I suspect your position is driven by the bad press earned by your politicians.
2) You MAY want to express your opinions to your bought-and-paid-for politicians. You can get their phone number or email on any of the political advertising that was bought by people who wished to express their opinion by sending money to your candidate.
When I buy a product I'm expressing some kind of opinion regarding that product.
Ok, so then the government can stop the NY Times from spending money on ink.
Bottom line is thank god you guys aren't on the Supreme Court. If the government imposes regulation on the instrumentalities of the press, which by the way is broadly defined, with a censorial motive, it violates the law. I have every right to spend money to access the internet to publish what I want to publish, I have every right to buy cameras to engage in photography, ink for printers and paper too. Because the I Amendment is not a right to go into a corner and be heard by those within earshot.
We know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
We know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
If your objecting is that separating money from speech will lead to massive censorship... well then you're just making up nonsense.
Um... I suppose it could... with a compelling reason. But I can't imagine their being such a reason and in the face of its true purpose of keeping the NY Times from publishing, that would be unconstitutional interference.
If people have a forum in which to communicate their ideas and a choice of forums, then the loss of one of those forums (money) does not necessarily constitute a loss of speech. However if that lost forum was the only available one then yet it doesWe know what the USSC says. But do you believe spending money is speech?
If you have evidence of a quid pro quo relationship, by all means, arrest them.
So is art.Speaking is speech. Writing is speech.