Is It Cyberstalking To Tweet 8,000 Times Telling Someone To "Go Kill Yourself"?

The courts are going to have to decide whether a man’s 8,000 inflammatory, angry and distressing tweets sent to a Buddhist leader are considered cyberstalking or part of the First Amendment. But the case is far from black-and-white.

William Lawrence Cassidy claimed to be a reincarnated Buddhist leader when he joined Alyce Zeoli’s Buddhist group in 2007. He also told the group that he had lung cancer.

They cared for him for a time, and even gave him a position on the group’s executive team.

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