Money is Property, Not Speech
Political Speech
5/2/2000; 4:28:53 PM Jan 27, 2000: Money is property, not speech, says Supreme Court: This matters to us, as one of the things the Internet does is create questions about what speech is. I think we need to take a somewhat narrow view, otherwise things like will be accepted as 'free speech'. More on that sometime this week.

The full findings of the court are online at http://caselaw.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&navby=case&vol=000&invol=98-963 . (Aside: Why don't online news sources like Salon provide a link to the decision? It doesn't even take any additional screen space!) I have posted a summary of the findings of interest into a discussion group message. Please feel free to comment on the case.