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Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by Argonaut998 on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:43AM (#47086262)
It’s bad now and not perfect for sure, but I doubt these instances would be upheld by the higher courts.
Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by ben_w on Friday February 20, 2026 @07:53AM (#47087404)
Kinda irrelevant, given that the go-to examples I see on Hacker News of this happening in the EU and UK are either actual death/violence threats etc. (which are also not protected speech in the USA) or also not upheld in higher European courts.

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

Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by dmm on Friday February 20, 2026 @02:44PM (#47092903)
Incitement is only illegal when "directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action".
Re:US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe a... by ben_w on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:33PM (#47093536)
And? I didn't say anything about "incitement", I said "actual death/violence threats", because I meant people making actual threats of violence up to and including death, are the actual things tweeted in the most commonly seen examples given on Hacker News (besides the aforementioned "also not upheld" that the commenter I was replying to tried to use to justify when Americans get arrested for tweets).