alt Hacker News> It's a first amendment issue, I'm allowed to write and read books that are useful to getting away with crimes, etc.
I'm neither American nor a lawyer.
Is "conspiracy" protected under the first amendment?
If you discuss a crime with someone to learn about it, does that count as "conspiracy"?
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rootusrootus • today at 7:38 PM
> If you discuss a crime with someone to learn about it, does that count as "conspiracy"?
Replace 'conspiracy' with 'agreement'. Discussing a crime is not a conspiracy. Agreeing with someone to commit the crime is.
tccole • today at 7:20 PM
Yes conspiracy is covered, now if you act it out… that’s a different story.
GP is correct, books describing, advocating, even instructing crime in the abstract are almost surely protected speech.