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Free speech is for speech you don't like, or it's for no speech at all.

EDIT: No, that doesn't allow incitement to violence, though in the US it does allow hate speech that isn't incitement.



The US version of 'free speech' doesn't allow incitement to immanent violence, but it certainly allows for advocating violence.


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.


It's the "immanent" that's important. Advocating violence is protected speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action




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