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Smackdown2019

(1,188 posts) Fri Aug 19, 2022, 11:06 PM Aug 2022

LIES ARE NOT PROTECTED SPEECH [View all]

So lets put it this way....

If we all sue Fox Intertainment News, Trump and his Trumpers.... they would loose!

Their Lies have caused our Capitol to be attacked and people died!

They spread fear with their Lies...

The government can also

Arrest them!

Its just like yelling fire in a movie theater....

They instead send fear to those to bear arms.......

"Ohio (1969), the Supreme Court of the United States held that in order to lose First Amendment protection as incitement, speech must be “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action "

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LIES ARE NOT PROTECTED SPEECH [View all] Smackdown2019 Aug 2022 OP

You're a lawyer? brooklynite Aug 2022 #1

Brandenburg v. Ohio Smackdown2019 Aug 2022 #8

Name a statement by Fox that SPECIFICALLY advocated violence brooklynite Aug 2022 #9

I have seen clips of their commentators Smackdown2019 Aug 2022 #12

And "falsehoods" is not equivalent to "advocating violence" brooklynite Aug 2022 #13

Have you read the case you just cited? onenote Aug 2022 #11

Are you sure? PhoenixRisingAgain Aug 2022 #15

Lies are absolutely protected speech drray23 Aug 2022 #2

Unfortunately, that is true. kentuck Aug 2022 #3

I hear you. But there is a difference between being KPN Aug 2022 #17

Lies are protected and so is yelling fire in a crowded theater. NYC Liberal Aug 2022 #4

Uhh? Yelling movie in a crowded firehouse is ok, but yelling fire in a crowded movie house is not. madinmaryland Aug 2022 #6

HEY MAD!!! elleng Aug 2022 #7

Hey Ellen! I was in Ellicott City for a job on Tuesday morning! madinmaryland Aug 2022 #10

Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is legal everywhere in the United States. NYC Liberal Aug 2022 #16

Start with a false premise, sarisataka Aug 2022 #5

Hah! for the best Subject title! UTUSN Aug 2022 #14

Another thing, the Bible is not admissible in a court of law as proof of anything. OMGWTF Aug 2022 #18

Yelling fire in a theater is protected speech Kaleva Aug 2022 #19

I mean, they are protected speech Sympthsical Aug 2022 #20

Maybe you are thinking "libel?" alphafemale Aug 2022 #21

de-rec on so many levels Celerity Aug 2022 #22