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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by lupusreal on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:50PM (#44447415)
Inciting violence can be protected by the First Ammendment if it isn't inciting imminent illegal action. His post is probably protected. If he were pointing at a guy and saying "We should lynch that ICE agent right now!", that wouldn't be protected speech.

FWIW, I don't even remotely agree with what he's saying.

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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by heavyset_go on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @03:02PM (#44447547)
To add to this, the speech needs to be imminent, specific and actionable.

For example, "People should [bad thing] ICE agents" would be protected speech as it isn't imminent, specific or actionable.

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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by account42 on Thursday July 03, 2025 @06:49AM (#44453674)
This is true but HN does not claim to be a free speech site and instead is focused on interesting discussion. There are many things that are legally protected speech that will get you reprimanded or outright banned here.
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Re:ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after ... by lupusreal on Thursday July 03, 2025 @08:02AM (#44454128)
"Shouldn't be allowed" is ambiguous.
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