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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by tptacek on Saturday April 05, 2025 @06:16PM (#43597260)
Candidate endorsements (and political advertising in general) are core political speech. You can't outlaw it in the US.
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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by esperent on Saturday April 05, 2025 @07:56PM (#43597825)
Are candidate endorsements by corporations (e.g CNN) allowed? That sounds like something that should be banned.
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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by twoodfin on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:48PM (#43598561)
Of course they’re “allowed”. Congress shall make no law…

The New York Times Company can say anything they want about anything, and especially political candidates.

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Re:What If We Made Advertising Illegal? by Cthulhu_ on Sunday April 06, 2025 @05:02PM (#43604940)
Sure, corporations get free speech protections too. Journalists even moreso.

And while I'm inclined to believe not everyone should have free speech, I'm also aware that denying it is authoritarian.

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