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FCC bringing a bit of transparency to political ads

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(This post was last modified: 02-18-2015, 02:01 PM by boudreaumw.)

Quote:Lol.   You seem to be asking me if I meant what I said above.   The answer is yes.  

 

There is a long and distinguished history of anonymous political speech.   Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense and published it anonymously.   Alexander Hamilton wrote for the Federalist Papers anonymously.   Benjamin Franklin wrote opinion pieces under a pseudonym.   Anonymous political speech goes back to the beginning of political speech.   They had it in ancient Greece.  

 

To limit anonymous political speech would have a chilling effect on free speech in general.  

 

So as curious as I am about who is really behind advertisements that tout various political points of view, if I were the Supreme Court, I would have to rule that limiting anonymous speech is a violation of the First Amendment.  
 We are not talking about generic political speech, as your example point to, we are talking specifically about campaign ads. The campaign process needs to be completely transparent otherwise it will continue to be chock full of corruption. To think otherwise is just silly.


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