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New Gear On Threadless: Fire In A Crowded Theatre
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You’ve heard it said, usually in defense of some sort of restriction on free speech, and often by people who really should know better: “You can’t yell fire in a crowded theatre!” There are a whole lot of reasons that it’s a terrible phrase that should have died a long time ago (see Popehat’s thorough explanation) but they won’t all fit on a t-shirt, so our gear offers a simple rebuttal. It’s an old favorite design that we’re relaunching today in our Threadless store: You Can Yell Fire In A Crowded Theatre.
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Comments on “New Gear On Threadless: Fire In A Crowded Theatre”
Noice
Great, now we’re making shirts that I have no choice but to buy….
Re: Noice
That’s the whole idea, Tim.
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Lood Gord. ANOTHER go-round on this false assertion.
Skip all your legalistic sophistries and show it in reality, kid: set up live video upload from another person, then YOU go into a crowded theater without advance notice and so on, in every way making a FALSE report as if real. — We’ll be able to enjoy you being hauled off to JAIL, likely for your own protection after the crowd beats you up, and even if loosed from criminal charge, the theater owner will have civil cause for lost revenue.
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Re: Lood Gord. ANOTHER go-round on this false assertion.
Okay? Then, go to it! You’ve got a RIGHT, exercise it or lose it!
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Lood Gord. ANOTHER go-round on this false assertion.
Skip all your legalistic sophistries and show it in reality, kid: set up live video upload from another person, then YOU go into a crowded theater without advance notice and so on, in every way making a FALSE report as if real. — We’ll be able to enjoy you being hauled off to JAIL, likely for your own protection after the crowd beats you up, and even if loosed from criminal charge, the theater owner will have civil cause for lost revenue.
Re: Lood Gord. ANOTHER go-round on this false assertion.
At this point, just go away.
Re: Re: Lood Gord. ANOTHER go-round on this false assertion.
To clarify, the shirt is not false. You can yell fire in a crowded theatre. Is it a good idea to do so without reason? Probably not. But you could do so.
Never heard that quote
Never heard that quote. But yeah I would never say that it was fine for someone to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre, if the person they believed there was not a fire. I wouldn’t say that was a freedom of speech argument, and we should all have the right to cause panic and piss people off in the name of "freedom of speech. Should the person shouting that be charged with something if they knowingly knew there was no fire, caused a panic and some guy got crushed and died in the panic? I don’t know. For me it’s the same level of stupidity as someone driving drunk a short distance on a quiet road, and happens to kill someone who runs across the road.
The point is moot because there are no crowded movie theaters.