From: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 08:15:09 +0800
To: jamesd@echeque.com
Subject: Re: FCC-type Regulation of Cyberspace
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Excerpts from internet.cypherpunks: 15-Mar-96 Re: FCC-type Regulation of
.. by jamesd@echeque.com 
> Bill Frantz wrote:
> >Political speech, not commercial speech.  The act doesn't apply or is
> >unconstitutional.
>  
> I see:  The bill of rights reads: 
> "Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of *political*
> speech".   
> Never knew that until now. 

Thanks for clarifying. Now I know that Congress can pass a law muzzling
the New York Times Co., Inc.

More seriously, society accepts greater limitations on commercial
speech, and I don't find them nearly as odious as I do ones that
restrict political speech.

-Declan