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Incitement is speech that urges others toward unlawful or violent action.
means The act of urging or provoking someone to do something, especially something unlawful or violent.
from From Latin 'incitare' — 'in-' (into, toward) plus 'citare' (to set in motion, to rouse or summon), itself from 'ciere' (to move, stir). The same 'citare' root gives us 'cite' and 'excite' — so incitement is etymologically kin to exciting someone into motion, just aimed at a darker destination.
- legal test
- must be likely to cause imminent lawless action
- not covered
- mere advocacy of ideas, however unpopular
- origin
- from latin incitare, to set into motion
- key case
- brandenburg v. ohio narrowed it sharply in 1969