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A death threat is clearly different from an insult. And I'm not sure why you lump death wishes in with threat. Those are also clearly different.
No they are not. At least not in the so called civilised countries.
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries." Insult?
Here in Germany we once had a guy have his apartment raided by 6 cops because he wrote a tweet to a local politician that said "You're such a dick". That's all he said.
It is frankly insane to watch the frog boil in places where you can have your house raided for insulting someone online. There is a wave of government authoritarianism in many places around the globe, and many citizens are happy with these growing nanny states.
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How is it wrong? If you are a public figure getting bombarded with death wishes/threats or vile comments about how someone will kill and mutilate your family what are you supposed to do just take it? There has to be consequences for people like that, like there are in real life.
The issue, as the article says, is that the law doesn't define what an insult is. That means that a death threat or saying "you're stupid" could potentially both be prosecuted under this law.
Here in Germany we once had a guy have his apartment raided by 6 cops because he wrote a tweet to a local politician that said "You're such a dick". That's all he said.
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The issue, as the article says, is that the law doesn't define what an insult is. That means that a death threat or saying "you're stupid" could potentially both be prosecuted under this law.
That stems from the fact that any definition of an insult will be either incomplete or incorrect.
Surely for a legal purpose you could make a pretty solid definition. If you want it to be fully black and white, you could enumerate all 'banned' insults.
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How is it wrong? If you are a public figure getting bombarded with death wishes/threats or vile comments about how someone will kill and mutilate your family what are you supposed to do just take it? There has to be consequences for people like that, like there are in real life.
A death threat is clearly different from an insult. And I'm not sure why you lump death wishes in with threat. Those are also clearly different.
In a distorted way, insults can have more critical consequences that threats.
This is this just criminalizing libel or does the prosecutor need to prove someone has been offended ?