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by standardUser
946 days ago
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Would they allow a Coca Cola run an ad that claims Pepsi donates to the KKK? How about an ad that claims "our competitors" donate to the KKK? If you claim an election is "rigged" or "stolen", those scenarios require a culprit. Who rigged the election? Who stole it? A very serious smear is being made that has no basis in reality, and I don't think that kind of defamation is generally allowed just because the parties being defamed are ill-defined. |
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> While the Federal Trade Commission regulates truth in commercial advertising, the FCC does not do the same for political ads.
> Some have called for a "neutral government regulator" to oversee political speech, but there's no broad, serious movement in Congress for something like that.
> In fact, various courts have repeatedly upheld the First Amendment right of candidates to essentially say what they want on federally regulated broadcast channels. Local broadcast television stations (think ABC, NBC, CBS) can't reject ads, even if they're blatantly false.