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SickOfTheOnePct

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11. Incitement to violence is not protected

Reply to Lucky Luciano (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 11:16 PM

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And misinformation about elections or COVID is not incitement to violence.

Either we think it’s ok for government to censor speech or we don’t. Unless we’re into hypocrisy, we can’t cheer Google or social media platforms for caving to government pressure to suppress speech, and then turn around and criticize ABC for doing the same thing.

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