coy threats like that are actionable only under FCC rules for interstate telephone usage if you called a person across state lines and the person you called feels that they might be in the subclass of targets. But posting in a open forum not intended for a specific target to see is ruled non-actionable as a "personal threat".
FCC phone usage was a wiggle room chipping away of free speech but some argue it was needed because of implied mafioso threat tactics to coerce parties
coy threats like that are actionable only under FCC rules for interstate telephone usage if you called a person across state lines and the person you called feels that they might be in the subclass of targets. But posting in a open forum not intended for a specific target to see is ruled non-actionable as a "personal threat".
FCC phone usage was a wiggle room chipping away of free speech but some argue it was needed because of implied mafioso threat tactics to coerce parties
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