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At what point do outlets like Libs of TikTok become guilty of incitement? There's a documented history of that and other outlets turning the spotlight on a person, school, or hospital, consistently followed shortly after by bomb threats, doxxing, and other harassment. That would seem to meet the standard of "incitement to imminent lawless action" under US free speech law [0], especially since callouts-then-threats seems to have become a self-replicating meme in our society.

[0] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/970/incitement-to-i...

parent hackermatic 3 years ago

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