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US Supreme Court sides with man who sent female musician barrage of unwanted messages (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by socphoenix@midwest.social to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] BurnTheRight@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does this mean people are allowed to stalk supreme court "justices" now? It sounds like they are legalizing stalking.

[–] Remillard@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If I understand right, this is a clarification (of sorts) to the standard of "true threat". Ken White covers a lot of first amendment speech issues and has a very good explanation here: https://popehat.substack.com/p/supreme-court-clarifies-true-threats

So. To the practitioner, or to the internet tough-talker, what does this mean? It means that the law of the land, at least 7-2, is that a threat is only outside the protection of the First Amendment if:

A reasonable person, familiar with the context, would interpret the threat as a sincere statement of intent to do harm, and

The speaker was reckless about whether the threat would be taken sincerely — that is, they “consciously disregarded a substantial risk” that it would be taken seriously.