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Aren't influence operations free speech?

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There is no right for foreign governments to have free speech in the US. If they are outside of the US they do not get US rights.

Yes. So is yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre. Nothing is without limits, and with out limits we are nothing.

>So is yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre.

A course of action so blatantly legal that a Supreme Court Justice used it as an example for what is clearly allowed, dislikeable though it may be.