So serious question for the Brits: If your spouse started tweeting at you with "persistent" messages that caused you "annoyance, inconvenience, or needless anxiety" couldn't they also be arrested and charged? Doubt there's anything in UK law that would prevent that, eh? hmmmmm. https://twitter.com/thehomoarchy/status/1168392636073267200 …
Ok. But the First Amendment protects us from absurdities like being led away in handcuffs for something you said on Twitter that "annoyed" someone.
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"Harassment, under the laws of the United States, is defined as any repeated or continuing uninvited contact that serves no useful purpose beyond creating alarm, annoyance, or emotional distress" https://definitions.uslegal.com/h/harassment/
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Right--but can you name a single case of someone being arrested in the US for the sorts of Twitter "transgressions" we see quite often in the UK? Our free speech protections are broad and the bar is higher.
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