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For the same reason that it's the governments business if you are grossly offensive or indecent in person. Shouting abuse at someone in public can see the law

• pdonis 4y ago
  > For the same reason that it's the governments business if you are grossly offensive or indecent in person. Ok, so why is it the government's business if you are grossly offensive or indecent in person? Why can't the normal tools people always use in social interaction handle this? > Shouting abuse at someone in public Is not what the person who was arrested in this case was doing. His tweet was not directed at any particular person. The law does recognize assault as a crime, and shouting abuse at someone in public can rise to the level of assault if the person being shouted at could reasonably believe that the shouter was threatening actual harm. But the crime in this case is not speech; the shouting isn't a crime because it is expressing an offensive opinion. It's a crime because it's a threat of actual harm.