Non-disclosure agreements are fundamentally unconstitutional, and the evidence for this conclusion is inescapable.
For comparison, what would your reaction be if someone tried to convince you to sign a document forever relinquishing your ability to vote in democratic elections? Such an agreement would be null and void, even if you acquiesced.
And how would you respond if you were asked to sign away your right to own a firearm? Again, even if you agreed, the document would not be legally binding.
This is because constitutional rights are supposed to be immutable. You are born with them, you live with them, and you die with them, and nothing is supposed to be able to change that.
Why then is it possible to relinquish you right to freedom of speech? How is it that you can forever be silenced by hush money payments, upon penalty of criminal indictment if you speak out? It directly contradicts the very spirit of our nation's founding documents.
At the very least the above argument is something worthy of consideration, even if it provokes no policy changes.
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