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The companies that run them do.

• Spivak 10y ago
  Commercial speech is not protected under the 1st amendment. However, political and religious speech, which makes up most of the robocalls during the election season isn't covered.
  • sukilot 10y ago
    It amazes me that this completely nonsensical distinction passed muster in the courts. There is no meaningfuk distinction between political, commerce, and religion, and the First Amendment specifically prohibits granting special legal status to religious activity.
    • bduerst 10y ago
      What are you talking about? CAN-SPAM laws dictate and prevent e-mail communications that are distinctly for marketing purposes.
  • bradleyjg 10y ago
    That's not quite true. Restrictions on commercial speech are subject to intermediate scrutiny, whereas the default for most other restrictions speech is strict scrutiny. That's not nearly the same as totally unprotected, like obscenity for example.