The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out the stalking conviction of a Colorado man who sent hundreds of unwanted Facebook messages to a female musician, ruling that state prosecutors had not shown that he was aware of the "threatening nature" of his statements.
Because they didn’t. They want to stifle speech, and imprison dissenters
The law didn’t require any proof of intent, so I could have claimed harassment - say as an online shop owner - from people who were upset that I ripped them off and kept emailing me.
Now that the law is nulled, Colorado will have to rewrite it to ensure that the reason they were sending me nastygrams is examined.