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5. You ask two very different questions. Should they be legal? and Should we use it?

Tue Dec 1, 2015, 08:08 PM

Dec 2015

They are undoubtedly legal on First Amendment grounds, but I don't have much of an opinion on whether we should use them or if they are useful.

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