Yea it was a law for like a decade. It got repealed in the 60s.
You have to purposely direct someone to violence and have it actually occur for it to be illegal.
If you yelled "FIRE! HEY LOOK AT THAT GUY IN THE WALKINGBOOT! IF YOUR BEHIND HIM YOU BETTER TRAMPLE HIM TO DEATH OR YOUR GONNA BURN!" and then they acrually did it, than it would be illegal.
I would but all of my area theaters are shut down!
Still though, it's not illegal. You may be asked to leave by the establishment, and could be legally held responsible for any damages that may result of your making a knowingly false statement, but making the statement by itself isnt illegal.
the phrase "yelling fire in a crowded theater" came from the court case against "socialists" Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer trying to hand out flyers opposing the draft telling men not to sign up during WW1 because it was a blood bath, according to Christopher Hitchens.
"The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
In my state, West Virginia:
§61-6-20. Falsely reporting an emergency incident. A person is guilty of reporting a false emergency incident when knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated is false or baseless, he:
(1) Initiates or circulates a false report or warning of or impending occurrence of a fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe, accident, illness or other emergency under circumstances in which it is likely that public alarm or inconvenience will result or that firefighting apparatus, ambulance apparatus, one or more rescue vehicles or other emergency apparatus might be summoned; or
It's actually not illegal to yell fire in a crowded theater. It's all fake and that particular "argument" against free speech is both a fallacy and fake.
I don't even get this analogy any more. Is it actually valid? I see it often used to promote censorship of free speech.
Does anyone actually think that if some rando yells "fire!" in a movie theatre that you and all the other patrons would jump out of their seat and run for the door, trampling all over each other as they go?
I think I'd at least take a look around first. And wouldn't it be the exact same reaction if there really was a fire?
it's a pretty good analogy; you cant see people in a theater but only in the immediate area including the guy yelling fire and eventually, may cause a bandwagoning effect where others may join in and "help" by declaring fire without seeing it. To the same effect, you are taking someone else's word that something bad is happening and we must act and in reality that isn't the case.
I can actually see quite well in most theatres. Enough to know I wouldn't trample on people to make it to the exit immediately after some idiot yells fire.
It would take a lot of gullible people to panic to that degree without even considering their own safety. I've watched videos of people hearing gunshots who barely even flinch, even when people are shouting "he's got a gun!"
Imo it's a good analogy only in a fantasy world that perfectly aligns with the scenario.
Also how many people watch movies these days? Maybe 50-100 tops? And the doors are usually pretty wide. And multiple coridoors. Why would that result in an absolutely deadly stampede?
It's not. Common misconception.
What about shouting "COVID POSITIVE" in a now illegal movie theater?
Yea it was a law for like a decade. It got repealed in the 60s.
You have to purposely direct someone to violence and have it actually occur for it to be illegal.
If you yelled "FIRE! HEY LOOK AT THAT GUY IN THE WALKINGBOOT! IF YOUR BEHIND HIM YOU BETTER TRAMPLE HIM TO DEATH OR YOUR GONNA BURN!" and then they acrually did it, than it would be illegal.
You might get yelled at but you cannot be arrested the original decision which would make doing so illegal was overturned in Brandenburg v. Ohio.
I yelled No Russia collusion in a Cinemax and felt a bunch of noodle arms slapping at me for about an hour and a half. Barley noticed. Movie was good.
I would but all of my area theaters are shut down!
Still though, it's not illegal. You may be asked to leave by the establishment, and could be legally held responsible for any damages that may result of your making a knowingly false statement, but making the statement by itself isnt illegal.
The "systemic racism" trope spouted by the media would be a better comparison here. Dangerous and causes violence against the innocent.
thank obama for making propaganda legal
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Good one, Sir.
the phrase "yelling fire in a crowded theater" came from the court case against "socialists" Charles Schenck and Elizabeth Baer trying to hand out flyers opposing the draft telling men not to sign up during WW1 because it was a blood bath, according to Christopher Hitchens.
"The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
In my state, West Virginia:
§61-6-20. Falsely reporting an emergency incident. A person is guilty of reporting a false emergency incident when knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated is false or baseless, he:
(1) Initiates or circulates a false report or warning of or impending occurrence of a fire, explosion, crime, catastrophe, accident, illness or other emergency under circumstances in which it is likely that public alarm or inconvenience will result or that firefighting apparatus, ambulance apparatus, one or more rescue vehicles or other emergency apparatus might be summoned; or
It's actually not illegal to yell fire in a crowded theater. It's all fake and that particular "argument" against free speech is both a fallacy and fake.
I don't even get this analogy any more. Is it actually valid? I see it often used to promote censorship of free speech.
Does anyone actually think that if some rando yells "fire!" in a movie theatre that you and all the other patrons would jump out of their seat and run for the door, trampling all over each other as they go?
I think I'd at least take a look around first. And wouldn't it be the exact same reaction if there really was a fire?
it's a pretty good analogy; you cant see people in a theater but only in the immediate area including the guy yelling fire and eventually, may cause a bandwagoning effect where others may join in and "help" by declaring fire without seeing it. To the same effect, you are taking someone else's word that something bad is happening and we must act and in reality that isn't the case.
I can actually see quite well in most theatres. Enough to know I wouldn't trample on people to make it to the exit immediately after some idiot yells fire.
It would take a lot of gullible people to panic to that degree without even considering their own safety. I've watched videos of people hearing gunshots who barely even flinch, even when people are shouting "he's got a gun!"
Imo it's a good analogy only in a fantasy world that perfectly aligns with the scenario.
Also how many people watch movies these days? Maybe 50-100 tops? And the doors are usually pretty wide. And multiple coridoors. Why would that result in an absolutely deadly stampede?