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Not in the USA, no.
https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
> Certainly online harassment leading to someone committing suicide is.
Harassment can be, but here "harassment" means making threats of violence, not just criticizing someone. That falls under "true threats":
https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1025/true-threats
Note that the older "fighting words" doctrine is probably obsolete and even then only applies to face-to-face conversation. For more on that see the prior link to Popehat.
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Not in the USA, no.
https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-...
> Certainly online harassment leading to someone committing suicide is.
Harassment can be, but here "harassment" means making threats of violence, not just criticizing someone. That falls under "true threats":
https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1025/true-threats
Note that the older "fighting words" doctrine is probably obsolete and even then only applies to face-to-face conversation. For more on that see the prior link to Popehat.