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Re:Airbnb’s ban of Nazis in Charlottesville sets an importan... by masonic on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:05PM (#15006025) 

  We criminalize all sorts of speech, everything from libel to copyrighted works.
Libel and copyright violations are not criminalized (civil law, rather than criminal law, applies).
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Re:Airbnb’s ban of Nazis in Charlottesville sets an importan... by mozumder on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:12PM (#15006043)
> Libel and copyright violations are not criminalized (civil law, rather than criminal law, applies).

No, both of those definitely also involve criminal statutes.

Also, another example of criminalized speech is sedition.

And didn't some girl get convicted last week of convincing her boyfriend to commit suicide?

I don't even know why people think there's unlimited free speech...

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