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user-inactivated · 3469 days ago · link · · parent · post: Twitter trolls, your days are numbered: The Department of Justice is finally taking online harassment like #Gamergate seriously.
Why attack just one part of the problem? The larger issue is that the normal curtailments to freedom of speech (hate speech, harm potential, threats of all kinds) don't apply on the internet, for two reasons. 1. laziness and 2. the general "20 years behind" approach to justice that has been institutionalized by the Supreme Court for 150 years.