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by reginaldjcooper 4665 days ago
Inciting a lynch mob is conspiracy to commit murder, so it's not a restriction on free speech that would prevent you from doing so.

Telling everyone an applicant has HIV is disgustingly immoral but I don't know if/why you should be barred from doing it. That's a much better question than the lynch mob.

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> Inciting a lynch mob is conspiracy to commit murder, so it's not a restriction on free speech that would prevent you from doing so.

On the contrary! The inciter doesn't explicitly call for the killing, rather they froth the crowd up into a frenzy by lies and emotion and then ask what that crowd is going to do about it... right about the time that a convenient victim from the "oppressor group" (Jews/blacks/etc.) comes into the scene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_excep...

Discrimination of that type in hiring contexts is illegal already, IIRC.