[ben_w]

> 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"?

[kristjansson]

GP is correct, books describing, advocating, even instructing crime in the abstract are almost surely protected speech.

[rootusrootus]

> 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]

Yes conspiracy is covered, now if you act it out… that’s a different story.