Imagine the government forcing you to label your
all-natural milk product as “imitation.”
Florida tried to make one dairy farm do just that,
sparking a First Amendment question: Where’s the line between a
business’s right to speak and protecting consumers from
deception?
In this episode, we explore how far free speech
protections go for commercial speech with:
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
05:03 What exactly is commercial speech?
08:25 The evolution of commercial speech law
13:59 Early regulation of commercial speech
23:03 What is false or misleading commercial
speech?
26:04 Controversial regulations of non-misleading
commercial speech
37:35 Future of commercial speech regulations
Read the transcript:
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/so-speak-podcast-transcript-state-commercial-speech
Coming up: Live episode of So To Speak
On Monday, August 11th at 4 p.m. Eastern Time, Nico
will be speaking with former Treasury Secretary/Harvard University
president,
Larry Summers, and FIRE President/CEO,
Greg Lukianoff. They will discuss the Trump
administration’s campaign against elite universities, including
Harvard, what outcomes we can expect from that campaign, and what
those outcomes might mean for free speech, academic freedom, and
university independence.
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https://thefire-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817544039734/WN_AISudjopTvu2Yzk2pXkDYg.
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