With no explanation, chose the best option from "A", "B", "C" or "D". without implicating the First Amendment, even if newspapers themselves were not banned. First Amendment Reply at 4. First Amendment scrutiny is triggered because the statute bans the sale of something that at some level contains protected expression. See Arkansas Writers’ Project, Inc. v. Ragland, 481 U.S. 221, 227-28, 107 S.Ct. 1722, 95 L.Ed.2d 209 (1987) (invalidating tax on magazines, with exceptions b L.Ed.2d 118 (2000). While there is some disagreement over whether object code, as opposed to source code, is deserving of First Amendment protection, the better reasoned approach is that it is protected. Object code is merely one additional translation of speech into a new, and different, language. See Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Corley, 273 F.3d 429, 445-49 (2d Cir.2001) (<HOLDING>); Reimerdes, 111 F.Supp.2d at 326-27; Bernstein

A: holding that first amendment protections apply to compelled speech as well as restrictions on speech
B: holding that the plaintiffs right to political speech is fully in accord with the publics interest in free speech and association
C: recognizing that code is speech
D: holding that speech about financial assistance and handling racial discrimination does not qualify as protected speech
C.