Twitter Missives Stalking or Free Speech?

27.08.2011

Free speech advocates are wary.

"While not all speech is protected by the First Amendment, the idea that the courts must police every inflammatory word spoken online not only chills freedom of speech but is unsupported by decades of First Amendment jurisprudence," writes the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which wants the case dismissed.

Cassidy is now in jail in Maryland awaiting trial.