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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by jml7c5 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @03:45AM (#19726415)
I believe your argument is that, because the author of a NYT piece has the right to free speech, any law prohibiting the NYT from publishing that article is invalid. Not because the NYT has a right to free speech, but because one can "fall back" on the protection afforded to the original author.

Doesn't this same protection apply to the author of an advertisement published by a super PAC?

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Re:The Whanganui River in New Zealand is a legal person by cf498 on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @04:33PM (#19742320)
The NYT shouldnt need to be involved in the discussion, they are simply making the free speech of an author available to more people. A bit more complicated megaphone.

Someone working for a super PAC how ever isnt spending his own money.

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