[jiveturkey]

> Some devs were harassed

> recommend to contact the local authorities

Does this kind of behavior meet the bar for legal harassment? In California it seems not per https://www.courts.ca.gov/1258.htm?rdeLocaleAttr=en which requires a threat of violence to rise to the level of harassment.

Does the post's recommendation rise to the level of legal advice? This all feels very childish to me.

[dspillett]

A number of jurisdictions have legally codified definitions specifically for online harassment and this behaviour certainly counts in some of them.

I suspect that in most jurisdictions this behaviour could be of legal concern.

The other word they used, which I note you don't question, is stalking. This sort of behaviour is even more likely to infringed on laws (which may not exist, or are well enforced, in all jurisdictions but certainly do and are in some) intended to manage that more specific form of harassment.