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Please educate yourself:

After Holmes' opinions in the Schenck trilogy, the law of the United States was this: you could be convicted and sentenced to prison under the Espionage Act if you criticized the war, or conscription, in a way that "obstructed" conscription, which might mean as little as convincing people to write and march and petition against it. This is the context of the "fire in a theater" quote that people so love to brandish to justify censorship. [0]

Every time this stupid meme reemerges, it serves only to identify people who have no idea what they're talking about.

[0] https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha...



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