The go-to quote for the illiberal intelligentsia to justify their suppression of speech comes from US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. It was Holmes who wrote in 1919 that “[T]he most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic”.
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