Re: shouting draft resisters, Parler

[Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3 () gmail com>]

I think it is reasonably clear this was a reference to the Iroquois Theatre
fire where 602 people died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_Theatre_fire
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-theater-blaze-killed-hundreds-forever-changed-way-we-approach-fire-safety-180969315/

Thanks,
Donald
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 5:56 PM John Levine <johnl () iecc com> wrote:

> In article <35226213b6fcdc4a9c94f0bf3047201c () mail dessus com> you write:
> > That would make me wonder how many cases there have been of someone
> > "shouting fire in a crowded theatre" where there was no fire and at
> > least one person died as a result; ...
>
> Probably none. That metaphor was used by Justice Holmes in a
> now-discredited Supreme Court decision Schenck v. U.S., which was
> actually about handing out anti-draft leaflets during WW I. It was
> overwrought then and has never been a useful guide to free speech law.
>
> This seems a wee bit distant from Parler or TOS or Sec 230.
>
> R's,
> John