Re: Censoship List

On 1/15/21 3:18 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> On 1/15/21 2:30 PM, Jim Fisher wrote:
>> As a definition that is indisputable, but then true free speech also
>> permits someone to shout "Fire" in a crowded theatre, as has already
>> been pointed out, so a line has to be drawn.
> This is where things get more nuanced.  You are free to talk about /
> discuss / pontificate "fire" with a group of people, even in a theater.
> However, you are not allowed to shout "fire" as if to incite people to
> panic.  The two vocalizations of "fire" have decidedly different
> meanings and intentions.  The former is legal.  The latter is not.
> Though the former is probably discouraged to avoid confusion as being
> the latter.
> 
> There is also the fact that laws regarding the latter are probably
> created at a much more local level and have nothing to do with Congress.
>    Then there is the issue of smaller, more regional, governing bodies
> being beholden to the same restrictions as Congress or not.

While the laws are probably done at the local lever, although what's to 
prevent the law existing at a state lever, I think the US Supreme Court 
ruled them Constitutional as it effected public health and safety.

That's what I remember reading somewhere.  <G>  These days, IMO, there 
are few sources of material the truly do due diligence to ensure what 
they are saying is accurate.


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