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What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? (electionlawblog.org)

submitted 1 week ago by PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat to c/legalnews@lemmy.zip

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[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Then free speech also means banning, or at least strictly limiting, corporate political contributions.

This anti-distortion rationale for government speech regulation used to be central to the First Amendment, especially in campaign-finance cases, until the Supreme Court rejected it when striking down corporate campaign-contribution limits in Citizens United v. FEC.

But of course that counts for nothing, since the Supreme Court is a wholly owned tool of the plutocratic oligarchy.