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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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The guy tracked down the guys home address and sent threatening messages. If you think that shouldn't be prosecuted then you'd be a hypocrite unless you also wanted real life harassment laws too be repealed as well. Just because harassment is done at a distance does not make it ok. Harassment laws aren't taken lightly in person, you have to do seriously over the top and intrusive actions, so there's zero reason to think that the same precedent wouldn't apply to online harassment.
Obviously thats not okay. But once we accept large conglomerates sueing people they'll start toeing the boundaries. Nintendo already enslaved a guy for the rest of his life. This particular case is deserving, some won't be.