[quote=harvey]
You and I must not live in the same country.

The purpose of the first amendmendment is to protect everyone’s inalienable right to say whatever the fuck they want to say.

If you don’t like what “they” – the press – does, then start your own media enterprise. The first amendment lets you do that, same as anyone else.
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The problem comes down to campaign finance laws, and why the laws exist. The supreme court has also stated that there is a layer of responsibility to the exercise of the first amendment. You can’t yell fire (without there being a fire) in a crowded room, so it is not exactly being able to say w-e-t-f you want to. You are trying to do the equivalent of equating a person yelling through a very loud PA system to being of the same loudness of a person talking. Not Quite.

An individual has much smaller resources than does a large well backed organization. The problem becomes one of trying to upset the one person one vote through mis-information.