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by andromeduck 3735 days ago
It's worse than that. They had an argument, she blocked him then felt harassed when she logged out and searched his tweets.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott

>because Guthrie continued to respond to Elliott's tweets, the judge said Elliott didn't know he was harassing her, even though he knew she had blocked his account.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/twitter-harassmen...

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> Elliott is believed to be the first Canadian prosecuted solely for tweets

Oh wow, thats horrific. I am not sure what is worse; being "taken away" for posting a letter to the president in a communist country or actually going to jail in a democracy for sending tweets.

IIRC he was eventually cleared/charges dropped/something (too lazy to google), but that's meaningless since he still lost his job, got his name dragged through the mud and generally screwed over.