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Would you be so calm if someone hired a PI to spy on you, then mailed photoshopped pictures and faked evidence to every potential employer claiming you were a c

Would you be so calm if someone hired a PI to spy on you, then mailed photoshopped pictures and faked evidence to every potential employer claiming you were a child molester? There is definitely the potential to chill free speech and we need to be careful; however there is also such thing as harassment. We need to figure out where the line is, then task a department in the FBI with enforcing it. If even 1% of the people trolling, harassing, and doxxing people were put in prison it would immediately evicerate most of those movements as the scaredy cats abandoned ship. It's one thing to harass someone across the country for free with no consequences. It's quite another to face jail time (even if it's 2 weeks served on weekends).

fiatmoney 11y ago
I would probably sue them. I wouldn't expect the police to try to figure out where the truth of a private spat lies, even if it's rally nasty and one of the parties actually is actually acting like an asshole. Cops aren't actually that good at resolving complicated factual claims & counterclaims. They especially don't like it. Open the door to police investigation of such disputes and you will have cause to regret it. You think the "trolls" you are so concerned about are above faking such a harassment case and filing the same charges against you? Are you really confident the cops are going to use their inestimable judgment and come to the right conclusion?