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The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.
Jimmy Wales
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Jimmy Wales
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: August 8
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