• Ep. 227: Should there be categories of unprotected speech?

  • Oct 22 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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Ep. 227: Should there be categories of unprotected speech?

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  • The FIRE team debates the proposition: Should there be any categories of unprotected speech?

    General Counsel Ronnie London and Chief Counsel Bob Corn-Revere go through each category of speech falling outside First Amendment protection to decide whether it should remain unprotected or if it’s time to “remove an arrow from the government’s quiver.”

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    Timestamps:

    00:00 Intro

    17:59 Obscenity

    21:20 Child pornography

    25:25 Fighting words

    32:36 Defamation

    41:22 Incitement to imminent lawless action

    52:07 True threats

    56:30 False advertising and hate speech

    01:02:50 Outro

    Show notes:

    -Court cases:

    • Schenck v. United States (1919)

    • Near v. Minnesota Ex Rel. Olson, County Attorney (1931)

    • Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

    • Roth v. United States (1957)

    • Miller v. California (1973)

    • R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul, Minnesota (1992)

    • Counterman v. Colorado (2023)

    • Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

    • New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)

    • Virginia v. Barry Elton Black, Richard J. Elliot, and Jonathan O’Mara (2003)

    • United States v. Xavier Alvarez (2012)

    -Legislation:

    • The Comstock Act (1873)

    • The Stolen Valor Act (2005)
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