is there a law against threats made over the Internet?

Answer 1

yes..
it is a felony to threaten others over the internet, just like it is by letter, over the phone, or in person..
it is harassment and it is a serious situation..

the FCC, local police,FBI..they all take this very seriously and will investigate and prosecute

Answer 2

Where do you people get your information. Communicating a terroristic threat over the internet is a Fedaral crime AND in most states now either a misdemeanor or felony depending on the severity of the threat.

INTERNET LAW - Threats Sent via E-mail Constitute a Federal Crime:

Electronic communications, in particular e-mails, have become a valuable working and social tool in the XXI century. Unfortunately, given its immediate delivery and disguised anonymity, some conflicted souls are increasingly using e-mails to transmit hateful messages. Transmitting threatening messages via e-mail is a federal crime in the United States and carries a penalty of imprisonment of up to five years or a fine, or both.

Answer 3

Use of the internet to threaten “the person of another” constitutes a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875 ( interstate communication of threat to injure) If it is communicated interstate, federal jurisdiction is created.

Please see the statute at the following link:

http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/875.html

To constitute "a communication containing a threat" under Section 875(c), a communication must be such that a reasonable person (1) would take the statement as a serious expression of an intention to inflict bodily harm (the mens rea), and (2) would perceive such expression as being communicated to effect some change or achieve some goal through intimidation (the actus reus). A message is a "threat" if a reasonable recipient would tend to believe that the originator of the message was serious about his words and intended to effect the violence or other harm forewarned, regardless of the speaker s actual motive for issuing the communication.

Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person with the specific intent that the statement made verbally in writing or by means of an electronic communication device is to be taken as a threat even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out which on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made is so unequivocal unconditional immediate and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family s safety.

It is not necessary for the victim to actually be placed in fear of imminent serious bodily injury or for the accused to have the capability or the intention to actually carry out the threat. The offense is completed if the accused, by his threat, sought as a desired reaction, to place a person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury.

Answer 4

There are laws against any kind of threat made by any means. But you always need the proof of who made it. So while the threat might be posted, where did it come from and who really posted it? That could be your biggest challenge.

Answer 5

Yep, it's considered more like harrasement though. Since you cant actually smack someone through the internet. Threats of crashing a computer are the same as well. Contact local police deparment. Good luck!

Answer 6

Technically particular, yet this is why attorneys exist. In a rap conflict, threats are elementary. even regardless of the undeniable fact that, this is a criminal offense. it may particularly come right down to who the possibility got here from, who it went to, how severe the possibility turn into, and how achieveable the possibility turn into.

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

OH YEAH!

i got expelled 4 an internet threat. dont ask. and especially dont do

Answer 9

No currently there is none but thir making one something connected with Internet Cafe's

Answer 10

yes. I know a guy here who got arrested for his actions on the internet.