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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (944558)	7/3/2016 7:26:56 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574615

It is still a message. The vocabulary might be limited, but... Dollars being speech brings up an argument from the founding of the Republic. Can speech really be free if one person has a newspaper with a potentially national audience and the other has a soapbox? In the past, the counter argument was that the paper had journalistic integrity and reputation to worry about and that meant the product had credibility. The guy on the soapbox doesn't have those restrictions. So there was a balance. If dollars are speech, there is a totally different dynamic. There is nothing to ensure that there is some integrity, it is just a battle as to who has the most dollars. Back in the days of Equal Opportunity Provision of the Communication Act, there at least was a chance for less well-heeled voices to be heard. But we don't have that any more. So it isn't free speech any more. It is biased according to the money spent.