[colejohnson66]

It’s for sure a slippery slope, but it seems to be the way the courts have ruled. Thankfully, they’ve generally taken it case by case (except for the Miller Test), and (generally) rejected the concept of “prior restraint”. It’s why I said it’s a good rule of thumb, not an absolute.

> Does emotional or mental or spiritual/religious harm count?

Actually, it depends. Sometimes yes; sometimes no. Anti-bullying laws are very much a thing, but then there’s the Westboro Baptist Church (where the courts have ruled their hate speech is protected).

Wikipedia has a list of “free speech exceptions”[0]. Among those include fraud (sometimes in the form of depriving someone of property through lies), CP (harm to minors), threatening the President, and others.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...