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Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls by crazypyro on Sunday March 08, 2015 @11:46AM (#9165923)
Unfortunately, the goal of prosecuting threats is to prevent violence, not prevent people from being scared. If the chance of violence is relatively nil, (I already argued that I believe these guys are just terrible, wanna-be comedians) I don't think there is any case to be made that these guys are anything near sexual predators, just assholes and scumbags.
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Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls by ijk on Sunday March 08, 2015 @12:11PM (#9166024)
The goal of prosecuting threats is because threats are violence, or at least are damaging in and of themselves.

Threats are also illegal under 18 U.S. Code § 875(c). Even if there was no intent to carry out the threat, if the threat can be interpreted by a reasonable person as being intended to cause fear, it counts as a true threat. [1]

[1] https://verdict.justia.com/2014/12/10/supreme-court-consider...

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Re:Curt Schilling Fights Back Against Daughter’s Twitter Trolls by chris_wot on Sunday March 08, 2015 @01:31PM (#9166300)
Thank you. I was about to make a similar comment. Threats are intimidation, and a form of violence.
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