Blaming violence on free speech is a very old trick | Noah Feldman

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : The defendant had been criminally convicted in federal court of violating the Espionage Act by obstructing recruitment and enlistment, as well as causing and attempting to cause insubordination in the military.
36% : It argues that political speech causes political violence, and that this speech must therefore be punished.
36% : It governs any attempt by the Trump administration to suppress free speech in the name of reducing political violence.
35% : Such claims of causation play directly into the Trump administration's strategy: using political violence as an excuse to suppress speech it doesn't like. Holmes' famous ruling in 1919 came in the case of Schenck v. United States.
34% : For more than a century, the American understanding of free speech has been that political expression may only be punished when it incites imminent violence, such as whipping up a crowd of angry people until they riot.

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