Re:Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door
by michaelmrose on Monday October 10, 2022 @03:09AM
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In the US you can most certainly according to present interpretation say virtually anything that isn't a credible threat or a false defamatory statement. You may lose your job, your significant other, and the respect of your community but you wont end up in jail.
> Telling a kid "you're a f*ot and should kill yourself" is not protected by free speech.
This would be absolutely awful but you would be unlikely to face legal consequences.
but if you write it on a social network they will probably come and knock at your door.
that's the point.
when you're writing something on a globally accessible platform you're basically making a public statement and it makes all the difference
people need to realize that freedom of speech is not the same thing as freedom of publishing anything they like without consequences