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by jwitthuhn 11 days ago
Good, Bernstein v. United States already established that software is speech. Limitations on what software one is allowed to produce are very blatant prior restraint.
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The case established that code is speech.

Software is not protected as speech.

Thanks for the correction, I had misunderstood that and thought it applied more broadly but it is indeed just "source code".

Given that, I'm glad to see something that protects software more broadly.