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Surely, spam bots aren't illegal, are they?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517215066550116354

At this point, he sounds like a politician making conflicting promises that he can't possibly keep... And also like a politician, he probably has his own interests in mind ahead of your average Twitter user's.



They are not. His position is entirely contradictory.


Its not contradictory when you realize his rhetoric is about individual rights and not bot rights…


So free speech only applies to humans? I thought in the US it also applied to corporations?


Corporations are just groups of humans represented by a legal entity.

So yes, free speech only applies to humans, lol.

Do you support spam bots having rights or are you just using that to try to win your argument?


In the United States, corporations have 1st amendment protections. The Supreme Court codified this in CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/08-205.html)

"... holding that corporations have a First Amendment right to free speech because they are "associations of citizens" and hold the collected rights of the individual citizens who constitute them." [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#:~:text=T....]


> The Supreme Court codified this in CITIZENS UNITED

Actually, the Supreme Court established it no later than First National Bank v. Belotti (1978), despite the frequent claim that this was an innovation in the 2009 Citizens United case.




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