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Ken White (of "Popehat" twitter fame) has a great article explaining how this and similar court cases during the first world war are the origin of the (poor) "f
by dry_soup 4y ago
Ken White (of "Popehat" twitter fame) has a great article explaining how this and similar court cases during the first world war are the origin of the (poor) "fire in a crowded theater" argument against certain kinds of free speech:
https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackneyed-apologia-for-censorship-are-enough/ https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...
- the_optimist 4y ago
- nerdponx 4y agoWhite mentions a few times that Holmes' dubious contributions to Court precedent have since been obsoleted. What specifically changed?
- lettergram 4y agoThere’s a Wikipedia on this apparently (to my surprise) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_t...
- _dain_ 4y agoBrandenburg v Ohio
- blululu 4y agoI never realized that the crowded theater of the idiom refers to WWI and shouting fire means opposing the draft. The metaphorical argument is much less compelling when the crowded theater is actually on fire!