[frugalmail]

Harm in the physical sense, agreed. But "harm" newly defined 2013-2025 mutated into "speech I don't like" by the government.

"Offend" is subjective, and US Citizens should not have punitive governmental consequences as a result.

But private organizations, should be able to make their own decisions on all the above.

[reliabilityguy]

> Harm in the physical sense, agreed. But "harm" newly defined 2013-2025 mutated into "speech I don't like" by the government.

By the government? I doubt that “speech is violence” comes from the government.

[zahlman]

This is plain sophistry.

When an order to harm is given and followed, the harm was caused proximately by the person following the order; and ultimately by the system in which the speech was to be taken as an order, and was followed. It was not caused by the speech itself.

Where American law makes an exception for "incitement to imminent lawless action", this is a recognition that something more than mere "speech" is going on.