XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: meanmrmustard@gmail.com   
      
   "Tang Huyen"  wrote in message   
   news:f06c725f-9bc8-4877-7af4-f23dc215643b@gmail.com...   
      
   On 7/23/2016 10:59 AM, Wilson wrote:   
      
   > On 7/23/2016 1:05 PM, brian mitchell wrote:   
      
   >> Tang Huyen wrote:   
      
   >>> There seems to be a clear distinction between saying   
   >>> something in public, like on these boards, and charging   
   >>> in unasked to dump hostile missives into somebody's   
   >>> private e-mail box, specially on a repetitive basis.   
   >>> The latter case is immoral and illegal, even if it may   
   >>> take some financial and legal means to prosecute. It did   
   >>> occur in tangent to these boards.   
      
   >> The last paragraph goes off on a tangent particular to a   
   >> specific case. The two modes of address the law prof   
   >> identified can both takeb place in public. Posters to   
   >> these NGs regularly flip-flop between public soap box   
   >> and personal missive.   
      
   > So I can call Tang names and get all in his face here, and   
   > that's okay legally?  Well then!  :-)   
      
   The distinction that is legally and morally relevant,   
   to me, seems to be between the *place* of the comment.   
   If it is on these boards, it is in public space, and   
   people are free to express themselves. If somebody   
   goes offboard to dump hostile missives into somebody   
   else's private e-mail box, that is illegal and immoral.   
      
   On these boards, surely, people can call Tang names   
   and get all in his face here, and that's okay legally.   
   Well then! I don't mind. Go ahead and have fun.   
      
   There are special cases with VIPs: if you threaten   
   somebody protected by the US Secret Service, like the   
   President, on the Internet, you can be prosecuted,   
   even if you claim that it is a joke. Even with   
   non-VIPs, you should not make threats. They are not   
   protected by freedom of speech. Again, threats were   
   made in tangent to these boards, and they were made   
   by unsolicited missives into people's private email   
   boxes.   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
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   in the 4th way group and he got a late night visit from   
   the gubmint.   
      
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