alt Hacker News> Freedom of speech we don't like is the true litmus test of free speech. It is trivial to say I support free speech when someone says nice things about me.
People are free to say mean things, they just aren't allowed to encourage violence. There is a difference between saying "I hate how Trump runs the country, he is an idiot" and "Can't someone kill Trump already".
I have seen a lot of the second kind on reddit. The first kind gets you arrested in Britain though, they don't have any meaningful free speech there.
But as you say what constitutes "encouraging violence" is not entirely clear, but most agrees that encouraging violence shouldn't be protected by free speech laws.
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This all may be well and good but the reality is that Reddit's rules against 'advocating for violence' don't really map out to any laws in the real world.
Like, on Reddit you're technically not allowed to say "Man, I'm so glad that Adolf Hitler guy is dead."
To my knowledge it is not illegal to say something like that (anywhere you want to live anyways)
I think that a world where people are free to talk about how they're glad horrible tyrants are dead is a better world than the one where they aren't free to express those ideas.
You wouldn't want to live in an America where it wasn't legal to condone the death of Osama Bin Laden, would you?
the second case isn’t illegal in the USA because it’s not a specific credible threat.