17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Declan McCullagh wrote:
Such a law would be unconstitutional, I believe, and unjust. It's compelled speech: the government forcing you to say something. Depending on how it's worded, it could also impact core political speech, something the courts generally don't like.
Declan, There is a lot of commercial compelled speech. For example, mutual funds must say that past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Do you find this kind of compelled speech unconstitutional? igor
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
Is there any justification for a law that would require senders to make filtering easier, e.g., by attaching a [COMMERCIAL] tag to all UCEs.
- Igor.
- Igor.