{"id":26019,"date":"2012-02-04T12:53:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/but-some-free-speech-is-more-valuable-than-others.html"},"modified":"2012-02-04T18:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T01:51:21","slug":"but-some-free-speech-is-more-valuable-than-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/04\/but-some-free-speech-is-more-valuable-than-others.html","title":{"rendered":"But some free speech is more valuable than others"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's neat that you or I can contribute to our favorite candidates for office, and that such protections are considered "free speech" by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Of course what does it mean that maybe I can make a few hundred dollars of a donation while the two Koch Bros. can individually pledge $20 and $40 million<\/i> each?<\/p>\n

Arguably, the person who owns a printing press has always been able to speak more effectively than the yokel stuck on the farm. But at some point, one has to wonder whether the simple, elegant, neat model of free speech can withstand this disparity in the volume control. #ddtb<\/p>\n

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It's neat that you or I can contribute to our favorite candidates for office, and that such protections are considered "free speech" by the Supreme Court. Of course what does it mean that maybe I can make a few hundred dollars of a donation while the two Koch Bros. can individually pledge $20 and $40 … Continue reading “But some free speech is more valuable than others”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":26019,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In "DDtB-SEB Podcasts"","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":26019,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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