Sarah Jeong's Harvard lecture: "The Internet of Garbage"

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There has never been a time when threatening people was covered by free speech. I mean, if I point a gun at you and say “Give me all your money or I’ll kill you” that is not free speech, and it is no more so if you threaten someone over the internet. Targeted harassement that doesn’t rise to the level of threats is a “thorny free speech issue” but even bringing up free speech when it comes to threats of violence is framing the issue completely wrong.

Thank you. I keep saying that we don’t need some massive new legal framework. We need to deterring bad behavior.