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EFF and Student Press Law Center Urge Supreme Court to Require Government to Show Subjective Intent in Threat Cases
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EFF Intern Reema Moussa authored this post.
In our highly digitized society, online speech like posts, messages, and emails, can be taken out of context, repackaged in ways that distort or completely lose their meaning, and spread far beyond the intended recipients.
With this in mind, we are urging the Supreme Court to rule that any time the government seeks to prosecute someone for threatening violence against another person, it must show that the speaker subjectively intended to threaten before …
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