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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (255817)	10/30/2022 5:15:27 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 361064

"this award was an effort to interfere with free speech" So are the SI terms of use. But, I digress. We don't have absolute free speech, and we do put a price tag on speaking too freely. Second, a few narrow categories of speech are not protected from government restrictions. The main such categories are incitement, defamation, fraud, obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, and threats. As the Supreme Court held in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), the government may forbid “incitement”—speech “directed at inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and “likely to incite or produce such action” (such as a speech to a mob urging it to attack a nearby building). But speech urging action at some unspecified future time may not be forbidden. britannica.com == United States defamation law - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org The origins of the United States' defamation laws pre-date the American Revolution; one influential case in 1734 involved John Peter Zenger and established ...