It’s not enough that ordinary people would find murderous rants threatening, the court said. Rather, courts have to consider frame of mind.
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Cat and mouse game is over for Japanese death threat hacker
A Japanese programmer, who taunted police by leaving clues in a memory card that he tucked into the collar of a cat found wandering an island off Tokyo, has been sentenced to 8 years in jail. 
Supreme Court quotes rap as it mulls Facebook free-speech case
The Supreme Court is wrestling with violent Facebook postings and the notion that posting “rap lyrics” is therapy that kept a ranting guy from really killing.
Another game developer flees her home following Gamergate death threats
US-based game developer Brianna Wu (the third woman to be driven from her home in what’s being dubbed the Gamergate controversy) after a troll posted her address online and threatened to rape, kill and mutilate her. 
13-year-old girl arrested for Facebook death threats against entire town
Despite specific threats to kill a 12-year-old cancer patient along with the entire population of a Texas town, Facebook initially stonewalled police’s efforts to find the identity of whoever was making the terrorist threats. It baffled police, as well it should. 
Is a Facebook death threat a true threat? Supreme Court to decide
The US Supreme Court will re-examine a case in where a man made death threats against his ex-wife on Facebook, giving us a federal decision on whether threats made online need to be made with real intent, or whether they just have to be taken seriously by a reasonable person who’s threatened.