Re:Japan passes revised penal code with harsher punishment f...
by ch4s3 on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:45PM
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> “fire” in a crowded theater,
This is simply not correct. This was a dum analogy by justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a case about a draft protest. He later overturned his own opinion in that case expanding free speech.
> Libel and slander are already illegal speech, as is inciting violence
Libel and slander mean the same thing. You're thinking of libel and defamation. All of these are extremely narrowly defined in American law.
This is simply not correct. This was a dum analogy by justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a case about a draft protest. He later overturned his own opinion in that case expanding free speech.
> Libel and slander are already illegal speech, as is inciting violence
Libel and slander mean the same thing. You're thinking of libel and defamation. All of these are extremely narrowly defined in American law.