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> people were making tweets saying 'Biden should order Seal team 6 to kill Trump'

Such tweets were not "likely" to produce imminent lawless action, or even plausibly intended to do so. That's ultimately why they're regarded as protected speech. The case of someone inciting people to set hotels on fire in an ongoing riot is going to be quite different.



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