How rare are online threat prosecutions?

In an essay in the New York Times Magazine on Elonis v. United States , the Facebook threat case to be argued Monday involving the interstate threat statute, Emily Bazelon writes that the rarity of online threat prosecutions is a reason to be vary of the defense's First Amendment claims: The truth is that even when intent to do harm seems obvious, online threats are rarely prosecuted.

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