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by tcfhgj 118 days ago
Ads aren't free speech, they are the absence of it, because you are paid for a preselected speech.
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That is a non sequitur.
how so?
>paid

If I get paid to say something I would have said anyway, is that not free speech?

>preselected

If I go to a protest with a sign that my friend made because I can't, that is not free speech?