When speech criticizing people leads to threats against them

The Volokh Conspiracy 2017-12-04

Summary:

An online speaker sharply criticizes a person or a business. The speaker has a huge, loyal audience, or the speaker’s message strikes a chord with readers who help it go viral. As a result, some tiny fraction — but a large absolute number — of the people who read the message send death threats (or […]

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/12/04/when-speech-criticizing-people-leads-to-threats-against-them/

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Authors:

Eugene Volokh

Date tagged:

12/04/2017, 08:51

Date published:

12/04/2017, 08:39