True threats are not protected by the US Constitution’s guarantee of free speech rights. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The US Supreme Court sided with free speech advocates on Tuesday in ruling that a man’s online harassment of a country singer could only be deemed illegally threatening if he knew it could be understood as such.
Counterman’s attorney turned to the Supreme Court arguing that the only way of determining whether a message is a threat should be subjective: what was the sender’s intent? But Colorado had argued that requiring a subjective determination of the sender’s intent would enable abuse of free speech rights, and specifically immunise stalkers “who are untethered from reality.”
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