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iamnotheretoday at 12:42 AM2 repliesview on HN

It’s still not good that these bills are setting the expectation that speech can be compelled. “You must add this sentence to the foreword of all books you write, unless you use the CC0 license” would still be an unconstitutional infringement of free speech even though it exempts authors who use a free license.

Given the current broad assault on civil liberties, though, I’ll take any small victories we can get.


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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 3:16 AM

> not good that these bills are setting the expectation that speech can be compelled

How is this different from any disclosure, signage or notice requirement?

calvinmorrisontoday at 3:25 AM

compelled speech, freedom of speech, association, etc all died with Goldwater. It's over bubba, the government is just thinking up new ways to use it.