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malnourish on Oct 21, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

It's a popular myth that yelling "fire" in a theater is unlawful.

For speech to be unlawful it must incite violence:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-time...

http://civil-liberties.yoexpert.com/civil-liberties-general/...

lostlogin on Oct 21, 2016 [–]

Being trampled to death is fairly violent. I wonder how non-intential violence would be viewed by a court.

smogcutter on Oct 22, 2016 | [–]

Even the incitement or "fighting words" doctrine is limited to specific face to face threats: https://popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-cens...

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