re: #130 Dark_Falcon

To your question: No, nothing so dramatic.

To your statement: A TV commercial does not obviate* someone else’s speech since the TV network or station has already set aside a bloc of time for commercials, and still has its newscasts for its own speech.

*: I like that word ‘obviate’, but I so rarely have an opportunity to write it. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do so.

None of what you said demonstrates that it doesn’t obviate someone else’s speech.

Paid speech limits the right of speech to those who can pay.

They can’t publicly bad mouth the candidate whose campaign they work for till after the election, it is true, but that is a standard part of most employment (If you publicly hate on the company you work for or the products it produces, you won’t be working there long.)

And this actually agrees that their speech is obviated.