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Weird, who would have thought that a pioneering rock band has something to say about the horrors of genital mutilation?

Some nonsense about "unintended consequences" and "maybe it's a bad idea to stop books and movies about politics from being published".

When you say "influence elections", what do you mean exactly? Campaign ads, or does that include books, movies, etc?

Quoting from Wikipedia For the Citizens United case, specifically:

The United States District Court for the District of Columbia held that §203 of BCRA applied and prohibited Citizens United from advertising the film Hillary: The Movie in broadcasts or paying to have it shown on television within 30 days of the 2008 Democratic primaries.[1][3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

Google Mark Kleiman and watch a video of him talking about swift and certain punishment.

the upshot is, in many places, the first violation isn't getting you put in prison. I fact it's not the second third or fourth either. parole officers are presumably human beings like the rest of us. but if the only tool available to them is to put a guy back in prison for 2 years, they're going to do that after enough violations. it's insane.

the solution is to punish every violation, but with a much much smaller punishment. like a week or even 2 days in jail. swift and certain. punishment does not need to be draconian.

Trick question, Lemmy is God