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Here are some crimes you can commit by speaking, where freedom of speech cannot be used as a defence: - assault / terror threats - extortion / blackmail - fr
by Aramgutang 3mo ago
Here are some crimes you can commit by speaking, where freedom of speech cannot be used as a defence:
- assault / terror threats
- extortion / blackmail
- fraud
- conspiracy / solicitation to commit a crime
- treason / sedition
- perjury
- slander
- DharmaPolice 3mo agoSlander isn't a crime in most places.
- iamnothere 3mo ago> sedition Sedition, the bugbear of would-be censors, has never really caught on as a tool of prosecutors in the US. There have been several attempts to use laws against sedition to attack dissidents in the US, but only a few cases have stuck, and it was usually during wartime or with extremely unfavorable defendants. Courts have (rightly) slapped down most uses of sedition laws as violations of free speech.