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nothal··on 4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video
As I mentioned further up the thread, it was illegal for about 50 years in the US as a hypothetical but it’s no longer a legitimate legal standard. Shouting fire in a crowded theater isn’t illegal (at least, it isn’t not free speech). See Brandenburg v. Ohio and how it overruled the prior Schenk standard.
nothal··on 4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video
Hate speech is also free speech per legal definition. That’s why the KKK can march through towns and profess hatred of whichever group they choose.
nothal··on 4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video
I agree with the content of your message but shouting “fire” in a crowded theater is actually free speech (or at least, only not free speech under an outdated legal standard). It was used as a hypothetical to represent speech creating “clear or present danger” in the Schenk vs. US case and was later overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio. After that case, speech must be directly inciting certain unlawful or violent action to not be free speech (under the model of creating harm, this isn’t the only model and free speech is essentially case specific, e.g. free speech is different for a government employee vs. a student at a state college vs. an urban professional at a private company). Free speech is honestly pretty sweeping and I always find conversations about free speech on tech platforms really disingenuous because most people usually have no idea what the legal standard is and don’t really separate government and corporate moderation of speech.
nothal··on Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage
Isn’t a significant amount of the codebase in Hack, a PHP derivative?
nothal··on Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
Why? It's relatively common for governments to prohibit businesses and services from discriminating against certain types of users, why do you think it's ridiculous in this specific case?
nothal··on PureOS is convergent
At that point why not pull out a laptop? Are you programming on a tablet?
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