Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day

Re:Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Pr... by _heimdall on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:31AM (#50137938)

Speech isn't violence because its nothing more than words and our speech is a protected right. Offering money to murder someone is almost certainly illegal because they are doing more than talking, they are choosing to collude in the act of murder and a jury is much more likely to agree there.

My point wasn't that money had to change hands or be offered, I was responding to an earlier comment. A person directly taking part in plotting to commit murder I'd also likely breaking the law and likely to lose a jury trial if they are actively plotting a murder whether money I'd involved or not. Saying "someone should" simply isn't a plot.

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Re:Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Pr... by Capricorn2481 on Sunday October 18, 2026 @12:21PM (#50142459)

But I wasn't saying "someone should", I was talking about a person with a following saying "go kill this person." I said "direct people to kill someone."

Your distinction that money has to be offered seems completely arbitrary. It implies people only do things for money and are otherwise impervious to influence. You really underestimate the level of stan culture America has.

When you believe that is okay and libel is also okay, by your standards, I can tell the world my neighbor is a pedophile who assaulted me as a child, and ask people to decapitate his whole family. And as long as I don't offer money, that's fine.

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