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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
The idea of "free speech" is about speaking out against a government... not about screaming "FIRE!!" in a movie theater. "Free speech" doesn't mean "say anything you want, anywhere you want to anyone you want about anything you want"
Everyone loves to drag the Constitution into the discussion and start talking about "Free Speech" as if there are no laws that define what you can and can't say and under what circumstances and where you can say things.
The argument about protecting the speech you hate is retarded... you wouldn't tolerate people calling you a rapist or pedophile and printing that in a magazine or newspaper... yet all your arguments defend that very thing.
some of you kids really neeed to grow up. life is not about you against authority... its a shame that so many of you live your lives as if it is. what a waste.
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I am far from a kid. Yelling FIRE! in a crowd can and typically will cause panic and more than likely injuries to people. Yelling BOMB, and so forth are all the same. There is a perfectly valid reason why you can not yell such a statement.
Also if I was a rapist then I would have to tolerate them calling me one. However if I was not a rapist and someone called me or printed that I was without the word alleged, etc. and it was not true then you have a victim (me) and a law to deal with the circumstances of it. Where as fictional text or the drawing of something that is illegal has no victim and is not in the same category as inciting a mob to kill someone or screaming "he has a gun" on an airplane.