[zaroth]

Jarringly violent and disturbing -- sort of like a certain (or any?) Quentin Tarantino movie that grossed over $100m world wide?

Most people would never fathom ideas so evil? Obviously false and useless hyperbole. Which is why you would deserve the downvotes.

What you fail to grasp is the entire concept of protecting speech, why it's so essential to a functioning democracy, and why your personal opinion of a paragraph of text being 'violent' or 'disturbing' is completely irrelevant.

We're talking about locking up a young man behind bars. Taking away his liberty, possibly taking away his ability to earn a living. It's not a stretch to say that his life is on the line, because of how a paragraph of text made you feel.

All this is further compounded by the highly political decision about what type of speech may be 'too violent' or 'too disturbing' to be legal. I can't fathom how an informed American can honestly argue that we should criminalize the act of typing a few words on your keyboard, and posting them on Facebook, when those words don't constitute an intentional and imminent threat to a specifically identified individual. (see, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio)