• douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Define “inciting”

    This is where things get tricky. Leave that ambiguous and technically anything can be “inciting” if it’s in words.

    Whether that’s racism, or anti-authoritarianism, or just speaking I’ll about your government.

    Freedom of speech, as a concept, doesn’t work if it applies only to some speech. Controls around it will be abused and used against you at some point (Look at where the U.S. is heading).

    This makes me nervous about more authoritarianism, as it sets a dangerous precedent that can be abused.