The death threats are sort of like a DDoS attack on someone's life when you get thousands of them. You can go after an individual who sent a single death threat but then they're just an idiot who made a single death threat online, right? Well put a thousand idiots who only made a single death threat online together and you can make someone's life a living hell.

> Can you imagine if the feds prosecuted every idiot who made a death threat online?

I imagine there'd be a lot fewer death threats if there was de facto official tolerance for them.

I imagine fewer people would make death threats if they started prosecuting more people.

Mark, your deliberate misuse of Brianna's preferred name and gender betrays your hostility and bias.

They have confessions did you read the article?

> realize that every person who arouses any controversy gets death threats online.

I offer no comment on the rest of your post, but this part mirrors my own experience.

My wife posted on Facebook a year or two ago about her opinion on a mainstream controversial topic, and it went viral seemingly instantaneously. Within 12 hours she'd gotten shared almost 10k times, and received hundreds of private messages. Of those, more than two dozen were direct death threats, some with the names of our children and other personal details.

That’s awful. I am sorry you and your wife had to go through that. Human beings can be depraved creatures.