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Hopefully Youtube will remain safe for the time being.
“I wonder how far I can go without getting into trouble.”
Well now you know, AH. Not quite that far.
It’s simple ... don’t threaten people with bodily harm. They might get the idea you mean it - which is actually the way it SHOULD BE TAKEN if you open your mouth and say it (or write it).
I hope my Farmville 2 Animals are not a threat.
play stooopid games, win stooopid prizes... There’s a guy who has been posting lies about me on the internet for more than 3 years. He posts on every site where he thinks readers might know me. So far he hasn’t threatened me. I wish he would. He lives in a state that has a law concerning internet threats.
I bet he wins at the Court.
If not, any artist selling a song, poem, book, etc. on-line that advocated any kind of threat could be convicted.
It beyond the pale - especially since he prefaced his posts with terminology like, “I’m not saying that.”
In California, under Penal Code Section 422 (I don’t know about PA Codes):
(a) Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family’s safety, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison. (b) For purposes of this section, “immediate family” means any spouse, whether by marriage or not, parent, child, any person related by consanguinity or affinity within the second degree, or any other person who regularly resides in the household, or who, within the prior six months, regularly resided in the household. (c) “Electronic communication device” includes, but is not limited to, telephones, cellular telephones, computers, video recorders, fax machines, or pagers. “Electronic communication” has the same meaning as the term defined in Subsection 12 of Section 2510 of Title 18 of the United States Code - See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/cacode/PEN/3/1/11.5/s422#sthash.0eilglN8.dpuf
“As Amanda Hess has explained so powerfully, women experience threats on social media in ways that can have crippling economic and psychological effects.”
Alright then, stay off the damned social(ist) pro-fruitcake pinko-run sites and there won’t be any threats and you can sleep at night. Wait for the nasty handwritten letter to be shoved under the doorjamb instead.
I feel like I’m watching a lost Donahue episode, and I never watched that fruity crap either. God I miss the 40’s.
My mother told me, “you listen to what people say. They’ll almost always tell you what they’re going to do. The important thing to do is believe them and take the appropriate action.” I rapidly found out she was correct. Generally, my action is to avoid those people. When people say they’re going to do something they generally, eventually, do it. Sometimes you’ll read a statement from a shocked neighbor, “for years he talked about killing her. But it was just talk. We never thought he’d actually do it!” Well, too frequently it isn’t “just talk.”
This doesn’t apply when the threats are made by a member of the bearded religion of savagery.
Or a nut. Wait...redundant...