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Comment by jonny_eh | Hacker News Reader

"he's just a mentally ill person"

That has very large influence and is spreading and inspiring hate [1]. Mentally ill or not, he's causing real-world damage.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/banner-kanye-right-los-...

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The premise of speech is damaging, unless it's slander / libel, is I think the main thing Elon Musk wants to change at Twitter.

What about incitement to violence?

That's already illegal, report it to the police

"Some guy in Russia told all the white men to rise up and kill all the jews and blacks"

The police "again, that's the 23rd time today"

This kinda breaks down at the global scale. I can call for violent acts at your front door from a continent away with impunity.

The main issue is violent acts, not the call for them. Whoever does something violent will not do so with impunity.

See, when you live a privileged and safe life these are some of the lies you believe. You are protected by your position in wealth, race, and maybe location. You're not black, or Jewish, or a unionist, and its all a big surprise when the angry mob does come for you. You yell "this is against the law!" And then only realize the person posting the hateful redeoric online was the officer that should be protecting you.

The fascists call for violence is always a joke to them, until the moment it is not.

Through the fog of purple prose and judgment based on your assumptions and theories of ethnic classification, you seem to be claiming that the police will protect us from speech but not from violence. I don't see how that could possibly add up.

I don't think a bunch of attention seeking lunatics holding a banner over a bridge counts as "real-world damage". Especially when it seems to have galvanized everyone in power to denounce them and pledge their support to fight against similar groups.

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