"“To make a true threat, you don’t need to ever actually carry it out. You just need to terrify someone,” argues University of Maryland professor (and Forbes contributor) Danielle Citron, author of the forthcoming book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. Citron says there’s been confusion among lower courts about the last Supreme Court case to tackle this issue, Virginia. vs. Black in 2003, which concerned the threat expressed through cross-burning."
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