Calif. Man Arrested For ESPN Post On Killing Kids

SternisheFan writes with an AP story as carried by Yahoo that illustrates one of the boundaries of free speech online: "A California man accused of posting comments on ESPN's website saying he was watching kids and wouldn't mind killing them was in jail Tuesday on $1 million bail after he was arrested for investigation of making terrorist threats, authorities said. Several guns were found Monday at the home of former Yale University student Eric Yee, said Los Angeles County sheriff's Lt. Steve Low. Yee was arrested after the sports network ESPN reported threatening posts were made in a reader response section to an online ESPN story on Thursday about new Nike sneakers named after LeBron James that cost $270 a pair. Some of the nearly 3,000 reader comments on the story talked about children possibly getting killed over the sneakers because of how expensive they are, said ESPN spokesman Mike Soltys. 'What he was posting had nothing to do with sports," Soltys said Tuesday. "We closely monitor the message boards and anytime we get a threat, we're alerting law enforcement officials.' An employee at ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn., notified local police the same day and they linked the posting to Yee's home in Santa Clarita in northern Los Angeles County."

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Re:Ermahgerd 1984!

[circletimessquare]

i am merely describing to you what the majority of your fellow citizens believe, what decades of judges and juries have said, and what logic and reason say about the natural balance between freedoms

how am i a tyrant for, in my love of freedom, understanding when people's freedoms are impinged by other's threats?

and what kind of person reaches for a gun when they feel theoretically threatened?

i think this is how a tyrant rules, with the gun and the threat and fear of the gun

the seed of tyranny is in you, friend, not me