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Comment by duskdozer

13 hours ago

Missing a piece of that?

>Connolly, from Northampton, called for "mass deportation now" and urged her followers on X to "set fire" to hotels housing asylum seekers.

This is probably not considered protected speech in the US either

Lol there would be 40 million Americans in jail if this wasn't protected speech. Either way, doesn't matter I made this claim two ways:

> the UK will put you in jail for tweets > people in the UK in jail for tweets deemed to be incitement to violence

and there is no question whatsoever that what I said was true. Like it or hate it, I don't care, these are true statements.

> This is probably not considered protected speech in the US either

You're absolutely right

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-man-charged-threaten...

> An indictment unsealed Tuesday lists out a series of angry Facebook messages that Streavel allegedly penned about Mr. Trump both before and after the election — some of which expressed a desire for him to be assassinated.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indiana-woman-charged-mak...

> Nathalie Rose Jones, 50, of Lafayette, Indiana, was arrested in the District of Columbia on Saturday, August 16, and charged in connection with making a series of threats on social media in which she threatened to kill President Trump, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro.