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Please try and tell me/us how it works out. I'm not willing to try.

And, here's the big W on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_t...

"speech that is dangerous and false is not protected, as opposed to speech that is dangerous but also true."




False as dictated by who?

Big Tech San Francisco censored the lab leak hypothesis, now accepted as credible.

During the lockdowns, politicians freely held dinners and mingled, mask-free with their friends. For those less equal than others, you were fined or arrested.

Invading in the Capitol was "peaceful protest" in 2018 when Democrats did it, but "insurrection" in 2021, because Republicans did it.

The New York Times now ranks below Breitbart in terms of credibility.

Same goes for universities. You know why people don't "trust the science"? Because when you mix politics and science, you get politics, not science.

"Dangerous and false" now just means "isn't approved by CNN today, but might be tomorrow if convenient".


"Big tech san francisco" has no obligation to platform anything. They can choose which posts they want to leave up based on their own whims. Now, if the government were to crack down on lab leak speculation, that would be a legal free speech issue.

Slander, meanwhile, is by definition false (as determined by a court). If the court finds that it isn't false, then it wasn't slander. Thus it isn't protected by law, and the state can prosecute you over it.


2018 had 100s of arrest.

2021 had folks die/get murdered.

I can see how you are confused.


>2021 had folks die/get murdered.

The one person who died violently was one of the rioters, an unarmed woman who was shot by Capitol Police. Four other rioters died of natural causes around the time of the riot.

(And before you mention him, Officer Sicknick did not die from being hit by a fire extinguisher because that never happened (<https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brian-sicknick-fire-exting...>). He died of a stroke which the autopsy found no connection with the riot (<https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/19/brian-sickn...>).)


> Please try and tell me/us how it works out. I'm not willing to try.

Being a devil's advocate, that's been tried multiple time by faulty fire alarms.


It is legal. What if there actually is a fire?




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