(June 4, 2013 at 1:16 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: The police explained it by way of an analogy: If someone texts you and says "I'm gonna burn your house down", not illegal. If they show up on your porch with a can of gasoline and say the same thing, it is.
If you think that's messed up, I would not disagree.
It's messed up, but there are just not enough cops in the world to go after everyone who says they're going to kill someone. They have to prioritize, and probably over 99% of the time, nothing comes of an angry guy saying he's going to kill you. Ubiquitus recording might make it possible to resolve issues like that as civil matters without someone having to be arrested.
