• SimulatedKnave@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    They allow recklessness (so you don’t have to prove intent, you just have to prove that they saw the risk and did it anyway, which I suspect would definitely happen somewhere around the third FB account).

    The guy was prosecuted under an objective standard - so basically, if most people think they were threats, they were threats. That’s a very high standard for a criminal conviction.

    Kagan makes some extremely reasonable points about how the distinction between hardcore political advocacy and incitement to crime is pretty damn narrow, so you have to insist on at least a recklessness standard. She’s right, and so are the other ones who joined her.