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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:33PM (#15242321)
I was very explicitly speaking of "legal". With acts like the CAN-SPAM Act, a lot of spam is, in fact, illegal, and it isn't by any stretch a restriction of free speech for an infrastructure provider to shut down someone sending illegal spam.
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by imgabe on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:13PM (#15242750)
The fact that it's illegal, that is, the government has outlawed that form of speech, renders it very clearly a free speech restriction.
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