Damn it's really an infringement on our rights that they cracked down on people yelling "fire" in a crowded theater

jcranmer 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is your regularly mandated PSA that the quote about "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater" comes from Schenck v US, which used that analogy to justify why the government could ban people from protesting the draft in WW1. It is not good law anymore, and has been fully superseded since the Brandenburg v Ohio case which limited the exemption to "imminent lawless action."

	▲	greekrich92 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh well when you put it that way, I guess it's good that kids are dying of measles again.

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freedomben 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Read the links. It wasn't just that. People from the administration were actively talking with social media companies and telling them to take stuff down. At some points they even demanded it.

andy do you really think the Hunter Biden laptop story was equivalent or even close to "yelling fire in a crowded theatre"?

	▲	Hikikomori 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They didn't. Fbi told Facebook etc to be on the lookout for Russia pushing stories to influence elections etc, they didn't ask them to do anything specific. Bidens campaign did ask Twitter to remove nudes of his son, which already broke Twitters own rules. This is why the twitterfiles were a nothing burger.