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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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