Re: Headlines from today

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:42:37 +0000, "Blueshirt"
<blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

only making a post on Facebook... and not
out actually doing anything bad.

In earlier Usenet days, talking bad was policed by some providers and
law enforcement.

July 1st, 1994
Usenet Abuse: Can the Net be Saved From Itself?

Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, two attorneys practicing law in
Phoenix, are conceivably among the two most reviled dwellers of
cyberspace. A few months ago, the husband and wife law firm of Canter
& Siegel brought upon themselves a virtual firestorm of "flames" --
the network term for angrily scornful messages -- for engaging in
constitutionally protected free speech on the Internet
...
...
Some Internet access providers already limit in their services
contracts what subscribers can say and do using their systems. First
Amendment issues do not come into play because the limitations are not
imposed by any governmental act, but by written agreement between
private parties.

In its Terms of Membership agreement, Delphi Internet Services
prohibits its users from advertising or promoting any commercial
product or services without Delphi's consent. Delphi also prohibits
users from submitting for publication on the system any libelous or
obscene material and requires users to get Delphi's permission before
engaging in any mass electronic mailings.

https://freibrunlaw.com/usenet-abuse-can-net-saved


August 21, 2019
'Joke or not, these types of comments are felonies': Police arrest
Florida teen for online threat

A 15-year-old student was arrested in Central Florida after
authorities said he made an online threat to shoot up his school

https://abcnews.go.com/US/joke-types-comments-felonies-police-arrest-florida-teen/story?id=65070169