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pessimizer
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The US version of 'free speech' doesn't allow incitement to immanent violence, but it certainly allows for advocating violence.
rosser
on July 2, 2014
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That's typically what "incitement" is taken to mean, particularly in a legal context: the "request, encouragement or direction of one person by another" to undertake some specific course of action, usually criminal in nature.
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It's the "immanent" that's important. Advocating violence is protected speech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
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