Judge Says Bombarding Someone On Twitter With Offensive & Threatening Messages Is Free Speech - GoFuckYourself.com

u-Bob · 12-16-2011, 05:33 PM

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...e-speech.shtml

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Earlier this year we wrote about a tough case, involving a guy who apparently spent nearly all of his waking hours bombarding a Buddhist leader he had a falling out with, with nasty, offensive and threatening messages on Twitter. He was charged with criminal stalking. This raised an awful lot of questions about the First Amendment, and a judge has now ruled that the tweets were, in fact, protected free speech.

Even though the Internet is the newest medium for anonymous, uncomfortable expression touching on political or religious matters, online speech is equally protected under the First Amendment as there is "no basis for qualifying the level of First Amendment scrutiny that should be applied" to online speech.... Indeed "whatever the challenges of applying the Constitution to ever-advancing technology, basic principles of freedom of speech and press, like the First Amendment's command, do not vary when a new and different medium for communication appears."

JFK · 12-16-2011, 05:43 PM

only so much of it is free, after that you have to pay

blackmonsters · 12-16-2011, 05:43 PM

Yeah, but where is the ruling that, because it's free speech, it's not stupid.

InfoGuy · 12-16-2011, 06:00 PM

Apparently the Buddhist leader hasn't heard about the "Block [user]" feature on Twitter.

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