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    24 hours ago

    Then free speech also means banning, or at least strictly limiting, corporate political contributions.

    This anti-distortion rationale for government speech regulation used to be central to the First Amendment, especially in campaign-finance cases, until the Supreme Court rejected it when striking down corporate campaign-contribution limits in Citizens United v. FEC.

    But of course that counts for nothing, since the Supreme Court is a wholly owned tool of the plutocratic oligarchy.