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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by FormerBandmate on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:46PM (#36296508)
Freedom of speech is a legal concept that clearly doesn't cover CSAM. Free speech is a principle but it also doesn't cover CSAM. Fire in a crowded theater doesn't actually work as a legal defense but obscenity does
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by thakoppno on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:27PM (#36297383)
> Fire in a crowded theater doesn't actually work as a legal defense

It may actually be a defense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by lukifer on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:23PM (#36298485)
As discussed ITA, that case was later overturned; and it’s worth remembering that its origin was as an analogy to justify criminalizing pamphleteering against the draft [0] (one could not imagine a more salient example of “political speech”)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by Ajedi32 on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:22PM (#36297282)
That's another reason I prefer the term "free exchange of ideas", it helps avoid the confusion created by people conflating the general principal of such freedoms with any specific legal provisions that exist in the U.S. constitution.
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