Here’s a little thought experiment to kick us off after the long weekend. It’s not a particularly difficult thought experiment, or at least it shouldn’t be. But rest assured, there’s an entire Western country that’s paralyzed by this conundrum at the moment. I’m talking about a country with tens of millions of people, and a supposedly highly developed legal system, that cannot handle this particular hypothetical. So with that dramatic build-up, let’s see how you do with it.
I want you to picture the single worst tweet you can imagine. I don’t mean “worst tweet” as in, an extremely dumb tweet. It’s easy to think of one of those. I mean the “worst tweet” as in, the kind of tweet that poses a threat to civilization as we know it. The kind of tweet that merits the direct involvement of the president of the United States and the entire judicial system. The kind of tweet that judges will punish far more severely than most federal crimes, including the following crimes that I’ll list.
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