Giving directions to a group of people who are willing to prepetrate violence is not the same as giving directions to a group of law-abiding people.
There is an assymetry about all this, and the left takes advantage of that. Assymetry also has a lawfare compoent, and abuse (but not illegal) of the system was used to great effect in the Russian hoax and appointment of special counsel. Is still being used to hide inforamtion damaging to the perpetrators in the FBI, CIA, DOJ, Courts, and State Department.