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by ramblenode 850 days ago
> carve-outs for "harmful" speech (best not yell "fire" in a movie theatre or "bomb" in an airport)

Just a reminder that the US Constitution does not explicitly have a carve-out. This argument originated from a Supreme Court justice who wanted to establish a legal basis for censoring anti-war speech. The slippery slope does not even need to be speculated about; it was purposefully baked into the "harmful" speech classification from the beginning.