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Old 04-14-2014, 01:55 PM
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How much of hate speech is free speech and when does free speech become an actual threat?
Free speech rights, as discussed before, are not absolute. For instance, one can peacefully call for revolution, but most states have laws against speech that incites a riot. One of the elements of those laws is that there must actually be violence resulting and that there was a high probability that the calls to riot would actually result in violence.
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