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by baybal2 2021 days ago
You cannot do so because US congress is prohibited making laws "abridging the speech."

Such law abridges what somebody says, and thus cannot be made.

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There are well-established exceptions that include incitement to violence. Wikipedia's summary:

"Categories of speech that are given lesser or no protection by the First Amendment include obscenity (as determined by the Miller test), fraud, child pornography, speech integral to illegal conduct, speech that incites imminent lawless action, and regulation of commercial speech such as advertising."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...

I cannot find any reference to that in the US constitution text.
So?

These exceptions are given. What’s your point?