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>Also "incitement to illegal conduct and imminent lawless action" is also illegal in the U.S. it just gets interpreted a little different. I'd say its more tha

>Also "incitement to illegal conduct and imminent lawless action" is also illegal in the U.S. it just gets interpreted a little different. I'd say its more than a little different. The US definition is pretty narrow and immediate. You can't get on a megaphone and tell a crowd to go kill some guy right now. >Except for nearly all the other countries in Europe, Canada etc. It's all down to opinion of course but those nations do not have sensible freedom of speech. They pay lip service to the idea but will gladly jail people for saying things the government doesn't like but otherwise harmless or victim less.

V__ 5y ago
> The US definition is pretty narrow and immediate. Except for exceptions, such like making some kind of threat against the president. > will gladly jail people for saying things the government doesn't like but otherwise harmless or victim less. Can you show me such examples for lets say Germany?
- sebzim4500 5y ago
  I'm not the guy you replied to but this springs to mind. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/angela-merkel-agrees-prosecution-comedian-erdogan-poem https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/15/angela-merkel-...
  - hef19898 5y ago
    Charges were dropped and the law was changed. The case was handled really bad so by Merkel.
    - V__ 5y ago
      Also, the law was kind of an old remnant, so most legal scholars were sure the law would have been declared unconstitutional if challenged.
matkoniecz 5y ago
What about National Security Letters?