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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize P... by gowld on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:11PM (#19211512)
> we extend the rights

The constitutional basis for that is not secure.

It's not obvious that your right to free speech extends to secretly paying someone else to speak.

If I leave an iPod in a public park playing a speech, the authorities can remove or disable the iPod, not a violation of my speech rights.

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Re:U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize P... by icebraining on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:29PM (#19211653)
I'm pretty sure they can also remove you; what they can't do is remove you based on the content of your speech, but then again I doubt they can have a policy of only removing iPods playing political speeches with certain viewpoints.
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