falsely shouting fire in a crowded theatre

falsely shouting fire in a crowded theatre
the example used in 1919 by the US Supreme Court judge Oliver Wendell Holmes to show that in certain circumstances free speech should be limited. Although he greatly supported free speech, Holmes said that ‘the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic’.

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