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[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Just to add to this, shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater when there is no fire is a phrase often used to define to limits of free speech. However, this was an analogy used by Oliver Wendell Holmes to describe what it is like to oppose the draft in WWI. That part of the ruling stood for about 40 years.

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