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comment by krmatthews
krmatthews  ·  2226 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What would the world look like if we took online threats seriously?

"I expect police and FBI would be swamped by constant bullshit."

Exactly this. If we take online threats seriously all the time, not only what you said will definitely happen, there will also be a lot of paranoid users and trolls. But if this happens, the cyber crime law will also become one of the most important laws that will exist.





cgod  ·  2226 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think that for the most part the battlefield would be 1st amendment law not cyber law.

krmatthews  ·  2219 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, that too, of course! But really, if we take online threats seriously, the FBI hotline will be busy all the time. And they better have a great tech team to detect IP addresses and all that because these days, it's so easy to mask your IP and troll someone online.