Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit...
by JumpCrisscross on Friday February 16, 2018 @03:14PM
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> The US Supreme Court ruled that fake news is not illegal under the 1st Amendment
It's not illegal for foreign entities to lobby our government (or the American people). It's illegal to do it dishonestly, e.g. by "posing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas" (¶ 3 of the indictment [1]) or using "without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons to open accounts at PayPal" (¶ 90).
Also, from ¶ 1 of the indictment [1]: "U.S. law...bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General."
It's not illegal for foreign entities to lobby our government (or the American people). It's illegal to do it dishonestly, e.g. by "posing as U.S. persons and creating false U.S. personas" (¶ 3 of the indictment [1]) or using "without lawful authority, the social security numbers, home addresses, and birth dates of real U.S. persons to open accounts at PayPal" (¶ 90).
Also, from ¶ 1 of the indictment [1]: "U.S. law...bars agents of any foreign entity from engaging in political activities within the United States without first registering with the Attorney General."
[1] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4380463-Internet-Res... via Axios [a]
[a] https://www.axios.com/mueller-indicts-13-russian-nationals-f...