Threatening to post sex tape on Facebook is not a crime, court rules

18 11 2015
Ars Technica
Oct 6, 2015
David Kravets
A man handed six years for threatening a local Georgia court clerk that he would post a sex tape of her on Facebook had his conviction overturned by the state’s Supreme Court. The justices ruled Monday that the Facebook postings did not constitute criminality or a “true threat” under the law, because the defendant did not express an “intent to commit an act of unlawful violence.”

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