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Re:Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts by imglorp on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:46AM (#23916882)
One might argue, in the US anyway, that free speech has explicit limits when harming the public: yelling "fire" in a theater is the classic example.

Pushing an agenda of literal chaos and death through theories like "it's only the flu" or "mask = oppression" is getting actual people killed, right now, by the thousands. Of course the devil is always in the details and the fuzzy lines.

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Re:Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts by flyingfences on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:49AM (#23916931)
Yelling "fire" in a theater is a classic misexample.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

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Re:Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts by imglorp on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @12:51PM (#23918940)
Good article. It seems the 1969 test disallowed speech that "is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action".

Encouraging people to violate mask orders would fit this definition.

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Re:Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts by jpd- on Thursday July 23, 2020 @08:14AM (#23926471)
Perhaps, if the speaker incited a crowd to remove their masks at a protest in a municipality in which not wearing a mask was illegal.

Simply advocating that people violate mask orders doesn't pass the imminence test.

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Re:Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts by jerkstate on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @10:47AM (#23917596)
How would this statement apply to organizing mass protests during a pandemic? Would you be for or against censoring that type of speech?
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