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“As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously explained, ‘the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre causing a panic.’”
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Yeah the whole "shouting fire in a theater" thing was a metaphor for speaking out against the WW1 draft. If you can't speak out against a government policy without fear of reprisal then what is the point of the first amendment?