[WayneS]

Threatening to feed somebody into a wood chipper isn’t free speech.

True, but as the author reported, the "threat" in question was a suggestion that the target be fed in to a wood chipper, and that is not the same thing as saying "I am going to feed [target of vitriol] in to a wood chipper."

[CitizenUSA]

That’s a pretty fine distinction you’re making there. Saying the person should be fed into a wood chipper is an incitement to violence, isn’t it? Would a reasonable person consider it a threat if the same poster kept printing similar comments? I think so. This wasn’t apparently just one comment posted in anger.

[trisham]

True, but as the author reported, the "threat" in question was a suggestion that the target be fed in to a wood chipper, and that is not the same thing as saying "I am going to feed [target of vitriol] in to a wood chipper."

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Well said.