MC 3080 Chapter : C The First Amendment Sept 11
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If you"re a company and you wanna get involved in a political argument, you have total free of speech. But if you are a company and want to put an advertisement out there in the paper, you have much fewer rights: what is said . Freedom of speech is indistinguishable from freedom of press. Corporations have a right to engage in political activities. Depends on: who the speaker is , we know that obscenity is not protected by the first amendment. Advertisements are not nearly as protected: where it is said, such as yelling fire in a theater. You can stand out on the sidewalk and say shit, it"s fine. But if you stand in the middle of the street, you can"t say shit: how it is said . If you say it on the back of a sound truck, at 200 decibals, at 2 a. m. , you would not be protected by the first amendment: why it is said .
