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US law defines the line as speech that incites imminent lawless action. The speech must not only be encouraging such action, it must be imminent and likely. Thi
by readams 5y ago
US law defines the line as speech that incites imminent lawless action. The speech must not only be encouraging such action, it must be imminent and likely. This is in practice a pretty good line.
If you think that private companies should censor much more heavily, then you obviously don't really believe in free speech. There's no obvious reason why it's more acceptable because all the dominant communication platforms censor speech vs the government doing it.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoIf someone replies to my comment and says "I'm going to kill you" how do I determine how imminent or likely it is? Should that be protected under free speech? I find this incredibly hard to navigate.
- dzader 5y agoyou're forced to follow laws, you aren't forced to post memes on twitter.
- dude187 5y agoWhen all your friends talk on platforms like Twitter and Facebook, then you cannot act like censorship through these platforms does not negatively effect the content of discourse available to the public. Especially in times of a forced lockdown, such as we were recently subjected to with the "quarantine".