alt Hacker NewsFor people too lazy to click, the second post was:
> I think it’s time for the British to gang together, hit the streets and start the slaughter.
> Violence and murder is the only way now. Start off burning every migrant hotel then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament, we need to take over by FORCE.
I'm not sure what the punishment for such a clear but ineffective incitement to violence should be, but it shouldn't be nothing.
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The US has a three part test[1] for what constitutes incitement:
- intent
- imminence
- likelihood
If the UK had speech protections like the US (which I wish they would) then it would fail the imminence and probably the likelihood tests (you rightly note that it is ineffective).
This is an convictable crime in the US. Inciting violence is emphatically not protected speech.
Sounds fine.
"then head off to MPs’ houses and Parliament" - that's the bit that probably set it in motion