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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:41PM (#21405239)
We have rules against slander, defamation, libel, blackmail and leaking secrets, technically they are speech.

Yet we usually manage to distinguish them. I don't think this is an intractable problem.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by throw_m239339 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:04PM (#21405367)
> We have rules against slander, defamation, libel, blackmail and leaking secrets, technically they are speech.

slander/defamation/libel aren't criminal laws. It's civil law.

That's why the Covington Catholic School kid has to sue "trusted" liberal outlets which allegedly defamed him in a civil court for instant.

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by chillwaves on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:35PM (#21405522)
How did that turn out?
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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by burfog on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:21AM (#21405727)
It's ongoing. He had been stopped on a technicality related to deadlines, but a new ruling by the court gets him past that.
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