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Why should they be held responsible for inciting terrorism? They're not injuring anybody.



Because it still ends up with people killed.

Free speech absolutism is poison for actual freedom.


I agree. I think it needs a lot more thought than the OP was giving it, though of course that kind of sarcasm reads poorly on the Internet.


One could argue that they are indeed injuring people, by stochastic terrorism [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_attack#Stochastic_te...




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