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dantheman on July 5, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: MayDay PAC

Free speech means the government cannot stop you from speaking, not that it needs to provide you with a printing press.

warfangle on July 5, 2014 [–]

Yet by denying the capital to speak, it inherently stops you from speaking.

This reducto ad absurdium is meant to illustrate that money, while necessary for a bullhorn, is not speech in and of itself.

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