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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by gwbrooks on Saturday September 17, 2022 @01:42PM (#32879481)
Further: Citizens United didn't just pop into our reality, fully formed, from a vacuum. Decades of prior jurisprudence and SCOTUS rulings related to campaign speech led to it.

Too many people think CU was some sort of this-changes-everything moment when it was actually a fairly narrow, technical decision based on prior rulings.

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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by woodruffw on Saturday September 17, 2022 @02:00PM (#32879697)
A slow knife is a knife nonetheless!

I agree that CU was a culmination of decades of jurisprudence. But that doesn't meaningfully change the fact that it has had a substantial effect on corporate money in politics.

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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by galaxyLogic on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:15PM (#32881153)
Right it means that every dollar counts in our political decision making
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Re:U.S. appeals court rejects big tech’s right to regulate o... by woodruffw on Saturday September 17, 2022 @04:35PM (#32881324)
Right, which is a very bad place to be -- it takes the already-low standard for politicking and campaigning and lowers it further. Why make yourself accountable to your constituents when you can keep your base inflamed with an infinite supply of PAC-funded rage clips?
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