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by dantheman 4373 days ago
Free speech means the government cannot stop you from speaking, not that it needs to provide you with a printing press.
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Yet by denying the capital to speak, it inherently stops you from speaking.

This reducto ad absurdium is meant to illustrate that money, while necessary for a bullhorn, is not speech in and of itself.