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stackedinserteryesterday at 8:45 PM1 replyview on HN

What does setting things on fire have to do with freedom of speech?


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oofbeyyesterday at 10:33 PM

I think this is how it goes: The people who set things on fire weren't directly associated with Greenpeace. But the argument is that Greenpeace's rhetoric incited them to do so. So it becomes a freedom of speech issue. If you tell people something is evil and must be burned, are you responsible for that thing getting torched?