[kube-system]

US courts recognize many exceptions to the first amendment. IP rights fall into that category.

[ceejayoz]

Which rather demolishes the telecoms' argument.

Clearly, the First Amendment right to free speech isn't absolute and unrestricted.

[kube-system]

The existence of intellectual property rights isn't really relevant to the telecoms' argument here.

[ceejayoz]

The similar existence of privacy rights and their conflict with the telecoms' right to free speech is, though.

[SamReidHughes]

There isn't a similar existence of privacy rights.

[ceejayoz]

SCOTUS begs to differ, in Griswold v. Connecticut. So do various state laws.

[kube-system]

It's a pretty big stretch to say that location and financial data is protected by a right to marital privacy.

[SamReidHughes]

A case about access to contraception has nothing to do with free speech at all, nor is it even the same kind of "privacy." They're two different concepts, with the same word.