https://ict-pulse.com/2013/07/free-lost-efforts-manage-freedom-expression/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-lost-efforts-manage-freedom-expression&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-lost-efforts-manage-freedom-expression Discussing ICT, telecommunications and technology Issues from a Caribbean perspective Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:49:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://ict-pulse.com/2013/07/free-lost-efforts-manage-freedom-expression/#comment-137776 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:49:15 +0000 http://www.ict-pulse.com/?p=24577#comment-137776 The christian faith advises through St Paul, the Apostle that it’s what comes out of a man that defiles him more so than what goes in. In another instance Christ is reported as saying if you covet in your mind you are guilty of covetousness. This is the high level of ethics demanded by the christian religion and likely so in others too. Impulse and ideas drives thought and thought drives speech and speech has a high probability of driving action. The co relations along this continuum are too well documented and experienced by many to be easily ignored. The charge of assault is without action, just the mere putting of someone in the fear of bodily harm constitutes the charge. Whether fear of bodily harm can be conveyed between remote connections to the internet is another story. But yeah psychopathic speech does have a chilling effect and the combination of abominable thoughts and with imagined heinous actions is reprehensible and mature adults should know that. Law already has already incorporated speech as an offensive weapon and the internet is now a recognised medium where that weapon can be used. It seems fear can travel across cyberspace after all.

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