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by ortusdux 3092 days ago
There are famous public safety exceptions to free speech that we all agree on. We don't allow people to yell "fire" in a theater for example. The current discussion is about if nuclear posturing threatens public safety.
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> We don't allow people to yell "fire" in a theater for example.

Can we stop using ungrounded dicta from a since-overturned decision suppressing core political speech as if it were an uncontroversial statement of an established valid limit on free speech?

>There are famous public safety exceptions to free speech that we all agree on.

There are limits imposed upon free speech by the force of law, but no, we don't all agree on them.