If this blog is an ad, then Spock has a goatee and Sulu has a dueling scar

Wikipedia cites Mr. Spock's goatee from the original Star Trek series episode Mirror Mirror as "a part of popular culture as a satirical symbol of evil and normality run amok."  So it is with states (currently, New York, though it's not alone) that would indiscriminately impose onerous advertising regulations on blogs and other online communications authored by lawyers.  In such a universe, markets aren't conversations — they're conversational vacuum.  More:

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