Originally Posted by
iris lilies
I am pretty much a free speech absolutist, so you will have to show me the very specific exceptions you are talking about.
In addition to the specific example the article references, and I referred to twice (you can't yell Fire in a crowded theatre):
In the United States, some categories of speech are not protected by the First Amendment. According to the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Constitution protects free speech while allowing limitations on certain categories of speech.[1]
Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment (and therefore may be restricted) include obscenity, fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, speech that violates intellectual property law, true threats, and commercial speech such as advertising. Defamation that causes harm to reputation is a tort and also an exception to free speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...ech_exceptions