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Someone threatening to kill you/rape you/etc. is a bit more than getting your feelings hurt.

But the law makes it illegal to send messages “for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another” - that pretty much includes simply hurting others' feelings.

Using the worst case scenario to justify overreaching laws is par for the course, and I'm disappointed by the number of useful idiots defending it on this thread.

Wait, was that last sentence needlessly annoying? Maybe I should get arrested!




Similar wording is in existing UK laws - you haven't been able to make telephone calls or send material through the post “for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another” for very many years.


Unless it has a special well-defined legal meaning, "causing inconvenience" is even more broad than hurting one's feelings.




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