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Speech can also constitute a crime. Hiring a hitman, joining a criminal conspiracy, or inducing copyright infringement are crimes; the fact that you may speak o
by xsmasher 17y ago
Speech can also constitute a crime. Hiring a hitman, joining a criminal conspiracy, or inducing copyright infringement are crimes; the fact that you may speak or express yourself while doing so doesn't make it a free speech issue.
- jpd 17y agoI concur that speech can be a crime: "…Whitney has been thoroughly discredited by later decisions. See Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494, at 507 (1951). These later decisions have fashioned the principle that the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action." -- wikipedia.
- jrockway 17y ago"Celebrating [copyright infringement]" is definitely speech, however.