[mrobot]

In the United States, Capitol Police also polices mean tweets. There are videos of people being confronted at their homes by California Highway Patrol, acting for capitol police, after they sent out mean tweets about some politician.

Not charged with a crime, but almost weirder in a way.

Edit: story is here: https://badnews.substack.com/p/capitol-police-sent-cops-to-a...

[joshuamorton]

Not mean tweets, but threats. And the laws around threats against politicians are...weird.

[ashwagary]

I remember a Republican senator sent the FBI to a person's home (to threaten him) because of his negative tweets about a public company's finances and its CEO, who was the senator's friend.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sen-johnny-isakson-called-fbi-o...

That CEO is now in jail because the tweets were 100% accurate but the Senator was never punished.