Incendiary Speech and Social Media
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2011
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Texas Tech Law Review
Abstract
Examines two such incidents, one in which an offensive tweet and YouTube video led a hostile audience to riot and murder (the Terry Jones incident), and the other in which a blogger urged his nameless, faceless audience to murder federal judges (the Hal Turner incident).
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Incendiary capacity of social media, First Amendment doctrines, Factors that contribute to the incendiary capacity of social media, Geographic and temporal speech, Quran burning in social media, Terry Jones, Hal Turner, Dangerous speech
Citation
Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Incendiary Speech and Social Media, 44 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 147 (2011-2012)