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		SolarNet on April 4, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Student Debt Giant Navient to Borrowers: You’re on... 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.

icebraining on April 4, 2017 [–]

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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