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It's wild how bad it has gotten since the election. It's important to remember that free speech does not protect directly inciting violence and it does not prot
by safety1st 2y ago
It's wild how bad it has gotten since the election. It's important to remember that free speech does not protect directly inciting violence and it does not protect advocating for the murder of anyone, even a politician. These are generally illegal
So what Reddit has morphed into, is an illegal content factory - there has already been a comment or two about it from the government and the Trump admin is not one that is likely to sit on my sidelines over this.
Whatever your politics may be, I'm just saying this is going to burn Reddit bad.
- michaelt 2y ago> It's important to remember that free speech does not protect directly inciting violence and it does not protect advocating for the murder of anyone, even a politician. These are generally illegal Under US first amendment rights, it's actually sometimes legal. For example, "Watts v. United States" established that if an anti-draft speaker tells a crowd "If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is LBJ" that's political hyperbole. So if a crowd were to set up a guillotine outside congress and chant "hang mike pence" it's not necessarily illegal.
- noah_buddy 2y agoThe only thing not covered by the concept (and law) of freedom of speech with regard to violence are direct, clear incitements to immediately commit violence. E.g. egging someone on to go lynch another person right now is not legal. Saying “I think this person should be killed” is legally free speech.
- solumunus 2y agoI don’t know if you’ve noticed but respect of law and norms is being thrown out of the window. That was the old USA and the paradigm is wildly shifting.