>For good reason we don’t accept people yelling “fire” in a movie theater.
This meme persists, because it sounds nice, but the phrase is from a Supreme Court case where they ruled you can't distribute anti-WWI-draft flyers. Not exactly the precedent to be invoked, here. It was overturned (in part) to define that criminal speech under the first amendment is only speech that is determined to incite imminent lawless activity.
>Any sourcing of the internet as a source of truth could be called into question on face.
Which is why banning "misinformation" is a terrible idea.
This meme persists, because it sounds nice, but the phrase is from a Supreme Court case where they ruled you can't distribute anti-WWI-draft flyers. Not exactly the precedent to be invoked, here. It was overturned (in part) to define that criminal speech under the first amendment is only speech that is determined to incite imminent lawless activity.
>Any sourcing of the internet as a source of truth could be called into question on face.
Which is why banning "misinformation" is a terrible idea.