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Free Speech and Sedition
Free Speech & Sedition is a legal-reference surface of the SoapBox civic ecosystem, published at free-speech.soapbox.community. It sets out the U.S. First Amendment law of speech alongside the law of sedition — the point where protected dissent and criminal conduct are drawn apart.
What it covers
- The incitement test — the modern standard under which advocacy becomes punishable only when it is directed to and likely to produce imminent lawless action.
- Protected vs. unprotected speech — the categories the law treats differently.
- Seditious conspiracy — the sedition statutes and what they require.
- Surveillance and chilling effects — how monitoring can suppress lawful speech.
Editorial rule
The surface is cited and descriptive, not advocacy: it states what the law is and what the leading cases hold, and is not legal advice.
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