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The specific thing that is illegal is "incitement to imminent lawless action", which is distinguished from advocacy for violent principles.


>While law enforcement in these areas are working to investigate what we and others reported, unfortunately the process is moving more slowly than the escalating risk.

I wonder if their evaluation of the "escalating risk" had anything to do with the legal standard of imminent action is. Probably not.


Is it really though? If so, then more than half the rappers would of been locked up for this by now.

I suppose who ever put such a law in US court system is holding their breath for the guy who got on International TV / web streaming / a huge crowd of people in Ferguson (?) and said 'burn this bitch down' - burn this mutherfucker down.. [1]

I dunno, maybe he was arrested for this and it is a real thing, if so I missed the news about it.

Or maybe it's technically possible to have to go to court for such a thing, but maybe only a few ever have, and the outcome of such a thing is anyone's guess, even those really into speech law [2]

[1] - https://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/us/michael-brown-stepfather-v... [2] - Imminent lawless action test still being fleshed out - https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/970/incitement-...




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