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steventh

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5. You can't yell "fire" in a crowded auditorium.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Aug 16, 2019, 06:58 AM

Aug 2019

The same principle applies to issuing an emergency alert over public airways. I don't see this as a First Amendment freedom of speech issue. There are reasonable restraints on speech, and I believe this is properly one of them.

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Jimmy Kimmel Live! fined $395,000 over presidential alert skit [View all] Eugene Aug 2019 OP

Free speech going down the tubes Tiggeroshii Aug 2019 #1

As late as the 1960's, radio and TV shows could not say "S.O.S." on the air. Eugene Aug 2019 #2

Possibly same reason it's not used for white terrorist mass shootings? PandoraAwakened Aug 2019 #4

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2019 #3

You can't yell "fire" in a crowded auditorium. steventh Aug 2019 #5