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False or misleading commercial speech is not protected by the First Amendment.


Then super PACs are what again?


Political, not commercial. All politicians lie or are "economical with the truth". If you want to get the courts involved in judging political statements, especially in a country that has already politicised the courts to a greater extent than many other Western countries, then you're on a hiding to nothing.


But the money that funds PACs can come from commercial activities. If all a company has to do is create a PAC, and PACs don't need to be truthful, it seems to me commercial speech is protected.


Commercial speech is not defined by its funding or by whether it's said by a PAC, but by whether it "proposes a commercial transaction."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_speech




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