Argument preview: Social media as a crime scene
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In this case, a thirty-one-year-old man, Anthony Douglas Elonis, who lives in the small Pennsylvania community of Lower Saucon Township, was convicted for postings on Facebook four years ago that prosecutors treated as actual threats of violence. The jury agreed, leading to a guilty verdict and a forty-four-month prison sentence. His messaging came after his wife had left him and he was fired from his job at an amusement park because of one of his postings.
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me-scene/***** Moderator's Note *****
Good grief. I think the jury should have been required to read Usenet for a month before rendering a verdict.
Bill Horne Moderator