[IP] more on NOT ] Illegal tactics in getting to voters

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Seth Breidbart <sethb@panix.com>
Date: November 7, 2006 4:45:57 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on NOT ] Illegal tactics in getting to voters

Paul Levy <plevy@citizen.org> wrote:

> do the FTC's rules apply to purely political speech?  I rather doubt
> it, and I doubt that they would be constitutional to the extent that
> they did

Content-independent rules are Constitutional.  For instance, amplified
sound trucks are illegal (based on decibel level), it doesn't matter
whether they're advertising political candidates or ice cream.

Likewise, rules about "Don't lie on CLID" and "Caller must release the
line when callee hangs up" (passed when someone died because an
auto-caller held the line and he couldn't call 911) and "Multiple
calls to someone who doesn't want them is harassment" are
Constitutional, because they have nothing to do with the content of
the calls.

Seth


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