[52207] in Cypherpunks
Re: FCC-type Regulation of Cyberspace
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan B. McCullagh)
Fri Mar 15 17:29:23 1996
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 16:45:43 -0500 (EST)
From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, jamesd@echeque.com
Cc:
In-Reply-To: <199603151625.IAA21520@mail1.best.com>
Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 15-Mar-96 Re: FCC-type Regulation of
.. by jamesd@echeque.com
> Bill Frantz wrote:
> >Political speech, not commercial speech. The act doesn't apply or is
> >unconstitutional.
>
> I see: The bill of rights reads:
> "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of *political*
> speech".
> Never knew that until now.
Thanks for clarifying. Now I know that Congress can pass a law muzzling
the New York Times Co., Inc.
More seriously, society accepts greater limitations on commercial
speech, and I don't find them nearly as odious as I do ones that
restrict political speech.
-Declan
