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Case about violent Facebook posts could change how Internet speech is prosecuted
- angersock 12y agoBefore it comes up (because it invariably will): Anyone looking to invoke the "fire in a crowded theater" meme should consider that its origin was in Schenck v. United States, where it was invoked to justify criminal prosecution of somebody urging young men not to submit to the draft. It's not "common sense", it's bullshit. With the massive data-mining and rampant algorithmic prosecution of people going on these days, it should be pretty obvious that this is a terrible, terrible fucking idea.