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[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Advocating physical violence to someone's person, or to a group of people. (for example: "I hope he gets stabbed." or "Let's burn all those people.")

Mean words don't count as advocating violence, but they will often count as ad hominem.

[–]Cornfed 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This would seem to preclude perfectly normal political speech such as advocating corporal punishment or saying things like "We should go to war with Iran".

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah there is gray area in this regard, but typically I wouldn't remove things that one could consider lawful

[–]Cornfed 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The normal criteria would be imminent threat, which is to say advocating participants to the conversation commit a specific crime within their own agency in the present time.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes we do it a bit more broadly than the absolute legal minimum. I think legally it requires stating a place and a time and a method and personal intent, and if all those are present then it's illegal. We cast our net a bit more broadly than that (but not too much more) to ensure there's no legal trouble for saidit.