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In reply to the discussion: Philly buses ordered to accept ads featuring Hitler & 1941 Palestinian leader [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)You sure you're not being coached?
My "Cherry Picked examples" are several important FIRST AMENDMENT SUPREME COURT DECISIONS. If you want to have a conversation on what the 1st Amendment does and does not protect, those decisions ARE the current state of law.
Anyway, revenge porn is another off-topic example. Someone else's naked picture without their permission is a violation of that person's privacy and property and, in a sense, their first amendment rights to speak or not speak or to share something of themselves.
I'm free to drive my car when I want, I'm not free to drive yours. I'm free to walk in my front door, not free to walk in yours, unless you let me. Not the same thing, right?
But again, that's not exactly a "speech" law. I'm asking you to come up with an example of someone being prosecuted for the crime of "incitement", which you seem to think is the rationale via which these bus ads should be censored.
You won't find it, because, again, bigoted speech or hateful speech is not inherently illegal, and the law is not running around prosecuting people for making hateful, bigoted noises. Doesn't mean those people aren't hateful bigots, but they aren't breaking the law by doing so.