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To: brian1501 who wrote (142774)	2/19/2002 10:53:37 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1576912

"I should be able to buy whatever kind of ad I want whenever I want." But there already are restrictions. When was the last time you saw a cigarette ad? If I wanted to run some scenes from my latest porn film on TV in my ad, could I get someone to take it? What about a drug manufacturing making claims about medical effectiveness? One difference is that newspapers and other media actually own the methods of transmission. This has been a problem since the founding of the Republic, is there freedom of speech if there are newspapers and all I have is a soapbox in the park? So far, the courts have ruled that is equitable. I am not saying this is right, but it is the way it is. The restriction on the ads falls in the same category.