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by PorterBHall 142 days ago
In the United States, stochastic terrorism is neither a statutory offense nor a term of art in criminal codes; it is an analytic label used in scholarship and practitioner writing to describe probabilistic risks of violence linked to rhetoric. Recent legal and critical surveys stress that usage is heterogeneous and contested, and that the concept's value lies in describing a structure of communication and harm rather than in supplying a justiciable element test.[7] By contrast, U.S. incitement law is anchored in Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969), which protects advocacy short of speech that is intended to produce imminent lawless action and likely to do so. Stochastic accounts often concern non-directive, cumulative rhetoric whose effects materialize unpredictably, making the Brandenburg imminence and likelihood prongs difficult to satisfy absent clear exhortation.[2]
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The goal of those pushing the “stochastic terrorism” scam has always been either outright criminalization of the speech or (at a minimum) public-private coordinated suppression of the speech. Don’t fall for it.
> “Stochastic accounts often concern non-directive, cumulative rhetoric whose effects materialize unpredictably…”

And it would seem ever more rapidly.

I know I feel enervated by the videos I see from MN. More and more by at the speed of my scrolling.

And, video instances depict the behaviors of agents who, in the moment of encounter, are able to rapidly escalate situations.

I would argue the latter is agents learning tricks and shortcuts from other agents on how to dominate. The more unrestricted and unaccountable they are, the more individuals are emboldened to learn and strive for the approbation of their superiors. They have a quota.

Following my last comment, “You raise your voice; I erase your voice”.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUBV45wkWe_/

What is up with this comment, is it bot-spam? What are the citations [7] and [2] supposed to be?
It's a quote from the submission (Wikipedia article).
the more you don't want somebody to be allowed to say something, the more stochastic it is