A lot of ugly positions are pushed as necessary. If you want to talk about things that are algorithmically amplified and spread far and wide, we could talk abou

A lot of ugly positions are pushed as necessary. If you want to talk about things that are algorithmically amplified and spread far and wide, we could talk about the first and second world war. We get the phrase "Shouting fire in a crowded theater" from Schenck v. United States which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment. The yelling fire in a crowded theater was telling Americans not to die for a European war and to burn their draft cards. The same thing happened during the Vietnam War. It happened during the Iraq war, and anyone who had doubts about Saddam having WMDs was shouted down. It happened with Covid too