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> There ARE thousands.

And here you're getting in on the dishonesty.

How many of those were examples of "hurt feelings" and not "put a whole lot of foreigners at risk of their lives" or any of the other classes of "online posts"? We don't know because in their rush to say "the UK's arresting 30 people a day for posting things online", the Economist didn't bother breaking that down.

> NONE of these would meet Brandenburg's standard in the US.

None of them happened in the US so that's irrelevant. My misunderstanding of the precedent around incitement isn't central to my point.



'We don't arrest people for speech, we arrest them for crimes we've defined as speech' is not the defense you think it is.


The USA doesn't arrest people for speech, but for crimes it's defined as speech, right?




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