Should "retweeting" be a crime?

[fredtoast]

(10-08-2019, 12:21 PM)Au165 Wrote:  Words are protected even words you don't want to hear. Information that is true is not illegal. While it can be weaponized, we have allowed that throughout our country's existence and deciding to waver on this now, but apparently only for this specific case as no one every wants to answer my questions on other scenarios, is not the way to move forward.

Words are not protected if they are intended to harass a person

Harassment is illegal even if the content is true.  Here is the definition from the Tennessee Code

T.C.A. 39-17-308 (4)

Communicates with another person by any method described in subdivision (a)(1), without legitimate purpose:
          (A)  With the malicious intent to frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress; or In a manner the defendant knows, or reasonably should know, would frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to a similarly situated person of reasonable sensibilities; and
         (B)  As the result of the communication, the person is frightened, intimidated or emotionally distressed. 


Now tell me how these kids did not think releasing this information would "cause emotional distress".