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ChristianKl comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 25 December 2012 03:43:52PM *  4 points [-]

PR is something different than legal trouble. Eliezer didn't express any concern that the speech he wants to censor would create legal trouble. If Eliezer wants to make that argument I should make that argument directly instead of speaking about PR.

In the US speech that encourages violent conduct is protect under the first amendment. See Brandenburg v. Ohio.

If you actually to want to protect against legal threats you should also forbid a lot of discussion that could fall under UK libel law.