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You don't have to imagine anyone but the US government doing the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch
by llm_trw 3y ago
You don't have to imagine anyone but the US government doing the same.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
One need only read the original pamphlet which gave rise to the saying "Yelling fire in a crowded theater" to realize that the theater was on fire, and possibly in the middle of a nuclear meltdown too.
It's been kind of shocking to see that for the last 8 years the party which is supposedly against tyranny to side with tyranny in the name of fighting tyranny.
- ThisIsMyAltAcct 3y agoWorth noting that Schenck v. United States was overturned more than 50 years ago.
- llm_trw 3y agoYes, but for some reason after Trump won in 2016 people started quoting Oliver Holmes everywhere as a reason why free speech needs to die. Along with misquoting Popper on why we must destroy freedom to save it.
- shadowgovt 3y agoThat is one of the great tensions of the US Constitution. "Free speech is free speech unless it's treason."
- lupusreal 3y agoAlmost nothing in America is treason. Nobody has been convicted of treason for anything after WW2 and even then there were only a handful of cases.. Usually accusations of "treason" are just meaningless slurs against one's political opponents.