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" All speakers, including individuals and the media, use money amassed from the economic marketplace to fund their speech, and the First Amendment protects the resulting speech."

Not true for individuals. An individual does not to "fund" his speech, he simply speaks. Note that the entire decision is based on this false truth.

None of this has anything to do with the original post.



> An individual does not to "fund" his speech, he simply speaks.

If you write something on the internet, you definitely "fund" your speech. You pay someone to host your website, you pay for bandwidth, etc. If you publish a book, you definitely "fund" your speech. Etc.

Speech isn't just speaking. The freedom of speech isn't limited to just the least effectual modes of speech.




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