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by joshuamorton 1602 days ago
Not mean tweets, but threats. And the laws around threats against politicians are...weird.
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ashwagary 1602 days ago
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.

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