Commercial Speech Quotes

The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.

Tobacco advertising has become the 2 Live Crew of commercial speech, and just as we shouldn't censor music, we shouldn't censor advertising.

If government were free to suppress disfavored speech by preventing potential speakers from being paid, there would not be much left of the 1st Amendment.

We're all surrounded by what I call faux language, fake language of commerce, of news media.

Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species.

Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?

Products are a form of speech, and free speech must be fiercely protected, even if we disagree with some of the voices.

Countries that censor news and information must recognize that from an economic standpoint, there is no distinction between censoring political speech and commercial speech. If businesses in your nations are denied access to either type of information, it will inevitably impact on growth.

Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.