[cdumler]

They don't. American's general education is so poor that just chanting certain phrases garners support. They want _their_ advertising to be considered "free speech" because it invokes a strong response of support in many Americans. This wasn't and isn't about free speech.

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Freedom of speech is _not_ an individual right. It is a principle of restriction on the U.S. government; namely, that the government cannot preemptively prevent you from even speaking about a subject. It was never about you being free from responsibility for what you say. The majority of Amendments came out of the abuses of the English monarchy where the King:

  * Prosecutes you for not following (real or imagined) his particular vision of religion (1st) 
  * Tells you are forbidden to even talk about something you know (2nd)
  * Tells you that you're obligated to station and feed his troops (3rd)
  * Sends enforcers to look through your stuff because "reasons" (4th)
  * Commands you to provide evidence of your guilt, so you're guilty if provide it or guilty for violating the king's command to do so if you don't (5th)
  * Locks you in jail and forgets about you (6th)
  * Stacks the judicial system with his people (7th)
  * Finds "creative" ways to punish you (8th)
  * Is the sole authority over the people (9th)
  * Is the sole authority of law (10th)

This is fascism. Like, not mocking, "oh, I'm going to call you a dirty word 'cause I don't like your position" fascism, but what a real fascism system is. It's where those in power are free to exercise any actions without any responsibilities, while anyone who attempts act in the same way to those in power are suppressed. [Anyone](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-threaten...) who [says](https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/9/elon-musk-pu...) anything about [them](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-04/spacex-su...) isn't.

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