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by manigandham 1932 days ago
> "You have no right to shout "fire" in a crowded theater"

This is completely false. It's nothing more than a mis-quoted opinion of a justice in a very old case which was eventually overturned and allowed exactly this kind of speech.

Please inform yourself of the laws you're claiming exist before you try to make arguments about them.

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In particular, this was an analogy used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in Schenck vs United States. The act which he compared to "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" was passing out leaflets opposing the draft, ie the government's power to force people to go to a war by which the American people were not threatened.