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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (176677)10/15/2003 3:34:31 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1586062
 
Yelling fire falsely in a crowded theater is a dangerous prank and against the law not an example of free speech limitation.

You are, of course, incorrect. In fact, the very analogy was made originally by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the early 1900s, when he flat out said that a strict construction of Freedom of Speech would allow one to shout fire in a crowded theatre. Then he went on to explain how Freedom of Speech specifically does not extend to allow one to yell fire in a crowded theater. Thus, there IS a free speech limitation to prohibit such activity.
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