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I think you'd have trouble prosecuting this in the US. Lots of people say awful things on X/Twitter. Mostly they are outbursts, or seeking some form of social
by mc32 2y ago
I think you'd have trouble prosecuting this in the US. Lots of people say awful things on X/Twitter. Mostly they are outbursts, or seeking some form of social credit. Just look at what people say about political candidates in the US. If you say something totally outrageous toward a political candidate, you may get a visit from the SS, but rarely, rarely, unless they have materiel or other immediate intent are they prosecuted/jailed. IIRC, Greenday, a few days after an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate held out a mask acting as a severed head. Previous to that we had comedians with severed heads of prominent politicians.
I think we're pretty liberal about these things in the US.
Remember the BLM riots where they set fire to automobiles and government buildings, etc? Those were actual acts of violence but few were jailed.
- zozbot234 2y ago> Lots of people say awful things on X/Twitter. The standard in the U.S. is not just saying something "awful" or "outrageous" in some vague and subjective sense, it's issuing a true threat or incitement of imminent lawless action. Ultimately that's going to be quite rare in the U.S. - perhaps precisely because other sorts of rude "outbursts" are legally okay, and because Twitter/X will issue bans for threatening or inciting violence. In the UK, the line is a lot less clear than that and people have been heavily sanctioned even for merely "offensive" online speech.