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by bcoates 4314 days ago
Says who? If you believe the Supreme Court, calls to violence are core political speech (Brandenburg v. Ohio, NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware). I'm not even sure what law distributing videos of murder would break.
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"Fighting words" are not protected speech (Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire).

Calls to violence are generally not protected; though Brandenburg v. Ohio ruled that the call to violence must be likely to actually incite violence.

Obscenity, right? That's not just about sex.