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You are wrong on the facts, about how laws against fraud work.

At least in America, courts only hear actual and not hypothetical controversies. Judges also do not grant a priori restraints on speech very often or very lightly. Laws against fraud criminalize (and preclude 1st amendment protection for speech implementing) dishonesty in certain contexts. But they do not restrain it by punishing the speech itself.



You've lost me. I never said the restrictions were a priori censorship. You can make the speech, and then you will be punished after based on it violating the law. And what do you mean by "punishing the speech itself"? Does "speech itself" mean the existence of speech or the contents of speech? If the former, I never claimed that, if the latter, they do punish that.




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