Generally, criminal harassment ententails intentionally targeting someone else with behavior that is meant to alarm, annoy, torment or terrorize them.
Although different scholars view unprotected speech in different ways, there are basically nine categories:
Obscenity
Fighting words
Defamation (including libel and slander)
Child pornography
Perjury
BlackmailI
ncitement to imminent lawless action
True threats
Solicitations to commit crimes
Some experts also would add treason, if committed verbally, to that list. Plagiarism of copyrighted material is also not protected.
Yes and unless it contains a specific threat as far as I'm aware online speech isn't criminal harassment. Being annoying is not criminal harassment unless you can site a specific court case I'm not buying that. Also Fighting words unless you count a credible threat.
This is about you not wanting to deal with a behavior you yourself have committed. I would advise being the change you want to see. The kirkland sub come on man?
I guarantee the people supporting this idea to begin with have not even really considered taking it too its logical conclusion. Supporting free speech inherently means supporting speech you do not like. If you only support it for yourself then you never really supported it in the first place.
I've seen people post some monstrous speech on this site. Wishing death on kids as an example I hate that speech but I support those peoples right to say it.
So:
do you think criminal libel and harrasment laws are unconstitutional?
do you think it is a good idea to allow others to accuse pedophila?
I modded a shit ton of people to Kirkland, so you guys could see theres a consensus that he has been detrimental to everyone's experience here
where did I comment on any of his posts, besides the ones people pinged me in?
Even ivan agrees, he is a paid shill.
A case could be made for libel I suppose, but nothing that has happened here qualifies harassment from a legal standpoint. Even if it did you would have to prove that in a court of law for it to be actionable, other than that it is left to my discretion and I remain unconvinced.
Where has someone been accused of pedophilia in a way that would be considered harassment this hasn't been reported to me.
Yes I can, but we are talking about compromising values which should not be done lightly. The user block tools are there for a reason.
You are asking me to put together a case for something you are suggesting? I guess I can do that but it'll take me a while I can get busy.
If you really want to argue this I'd really suggest really thinking about what the logical conclusion is.
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