Ever Beedle on Nostr: Decided to listen to the Zuckerberg JRE episode this morning, less than 10 minutes in ...
Decided to listen to the Zuckerberg JRE episode this morning, less than 10 minutes in Zuck says something like "there is clear Supreme Court precedent on this, you can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater, there is some authority to restrict speech in an emergency"
Physically cringed when I heard it. For those who don't know, that "can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater" line comes from a SCOTUS case from the early 1900s, where one of the judges used that as an example for why it was OK to criminalize passing out anti-war flyers, which is what the actual case was about.
That ruling has largely been walked back, and that's not a recent SCOTUS development either, so it's weird for Zuck to think that it's representative of current SCOTUS standing.
Physically cringed when I heard it. For those who don't know, that "can't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater" line comes from a SCOTUS case from the early 1900s, where one of the judges used that as an example for why it was OK to criminalize passing out anti-war flyers, which is what the actual case was about.
That ruling has largely been walked back, and that's not a recent SCOTUS development either, so it's weird for Zuck to think that it's representative of current SCOTUS standing.