12 May '22 02:07>
@sonhouse said"Yelling fire in a theater." almost as boring and hackneyed as shag doody's attempts at humor.
@AverageJoe1
Free speech has to have limits. I assume you are ok then with unlimited free speech where anyone can scream FIRE in a crowded theater or go LET'S ATTACK THE CAPITOL.
Let's overthrow the government, we have 2000 volunteers already and we have thousands of AK47's and RPG's and we figure to blow the capitol building to smithereens.
I assume ALL of that would be WAY OK with you.
I can only assume you would actively CONDONE such speech.
You have a right to live your life free from force, threats of force and fraud (zip it No1).
Yelling fire in a crowded theater when there is no fire falls into the fraud category, it's a deception, so no, that is not covered by 'free speech'.
As for "let's attack the capitol" you would need to prove objective threat, and if we play out the scenario that the protestors were supposedly going to take over the capitol, set up shop, a guillotine, commence to change laws and throw parasites in jail? no-one in their right mind believes that to be credible and therefore, not an objective threat.