Should online stalkers who doggedly pursue and threaten women be held responsible for causing harm? Or if they won’t admit to intending harm should they be free of legal consequences, whatever the harm?
https://news.yahoo.com/constitutes-true-threat-online-major-194108644.html
In oral arguments, Supreme Court justices asked a question that we can answer with science: do policies against harassment cause a chilling effect on freedom of expression?
In multiple large-scale field experiments, we have found that policies that restrict harmful speech actually increase the free exercise of speech rights.
Here's our latest data: https://citizensandtech.org/2022/08/harassment-prevention-across-communities/
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Jackie Gardina