• @[email protected]
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    171 year ago

    Because that’s not technically illegal until the gag order, which went into effect after the post was made.

    • Flying Squid
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      71 year ago

      It’s not illegal to threaten someone?

      • @bhmnscmm
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        141 year ago

        He wasn’t threatening. He was insulting. The word “attack” is misleading in this context.

        • Flying Squid
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          131 year ago

          The threat wasn’t explicit, but it was certainly implicit. That’s why he posted her personal social media info. He is fully aware he has an army of followers that will take that and run with it. I don’t think that he should be able to get away with that so easily.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            Which is why he now has a gag order. The act of posting someone’s ig isn’t illegal, but now it is with the gag order.

            • Flying Squid
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              51 year ago

              If I had thousands of followers and I posted your social media info while insulting you, wouldn’t you consider that a threat? I don’t think a gag order, which was very narrow, is much of a punishment.

              • @[email protected]
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                81 year ago

                Legally that is not a threat. Now it is a violation of the gag order, which is illegal. A lawyer could try and argue it is a threat, but that could take much longer, set precedent for future cases, and isn’t as guaranteed as a gag order.

        • @paintbucketholder
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          21 year ago

          He was also inciting his followers.

          Whether or not it rises to the level of “inciting imminent lawless action” is a different topic, but it’s not like he was merely insulting someone to their face - he was pointing tens of millions of his psycho followers at her.