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by pcarolan 1200 days ago
You also can't yell fire in a crowded theater when there isn't one. You could make the argument that someone did.
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You totally can do that, it's not illegal! Schenck v. United States is a pretty odious court case I wouldn't want to be on the censor's side in that one.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

No you could not. LegalEagle did a video on this in the last week talking about that ruling that was overturned and doesn't apply to the vast majority of case law anyway.