Unprotected Speech Flashcards
Speech that’s unprotected
- False or misleading commercial speech or commercial speech related to unlawful activity
- Incitement ( advocating unlawful conduct)
- Fighting words
- Obscenity
- Child porn
Incitement (advocating unlawful conduct)
- Speech advocating for imminent lawless action, AND
2. Speech that is likely to produce or incite imminent lawless action
Fighting words - defined
Words which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of peace, words delivered in a manner and under circumstances likely to cause an immediate and serious harm-typically, a violent reaction stemming from a face-to-face confrontation.
Fighting words - True Threat
Statements meant to communicate an intent to place an individual or group in fear of bodily harm
Obscenity - Rule
A description or depiction of sexual conduct that taken as a whole, by the average person, applying contemporary community standards
(1) appeals to the prurient interest in sex;
(2) portrays sex in a patently offensive way; and
(3) does not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value
Child porn definition
minors engaged in some types of lewd, explicit sexual activities
Child porn standard of review
Secondary effects. Intermediate Scrutiny