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To: ForYourChildren

Can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. Same goes for knowingly publishing “news” that risks national security or individual lives.


10 posted on 08/04/2017 5:44:56 PM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: reasonisfaith
You're wrong on both counts.

Can’t yell fire in a crowded theater.

You forgot the word "falsely", too. Schenck v. United States is the SCOTUS case which famously includes the phrase "falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater". The "falsely shouting fire" phrase was dicta, meaning it never was law. Furthermore, Schenck v. United States was overturned in 1969 by Brandenburg v. Ohio. So even if "falsely shouting fire" was prohibited at one time, it hasn't been in nearly the past 50 years since Brandenburg.

Same goes for knowingly publishing “news” that risks national security or individual lives.

The lawbreaker in a leaking case is the leaker, not the recipient of the leak. See New York Times Co. v. United States.

18 posted on 08/04/2017 5:59:11 PM PDT by SSS Two
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