NEW: Colorado Supreme Court strikes down part of state’s cyberbullying law as unconstitutional
who attempted suicide after being cyberbullied — but the justices on Monday said the law was overly broad.
“The primary concern here isn’t the invasive medium the government seeks to regulate — omnipresent electronic communication — but how much the statute impinges on or potentially chills speech,” Hood wrote. “Today’s technology merely amplifies this old-fashioned problem.” The current case before the state Supreme Court involved a man who repeatedly emailed his ex-wife “disparaging and vulgar” comments in 2018 despite her requests that he stop. The man then posted on Facebook that his ex-wife had contracted a sexually transmitted disease. He was charged with harassment and domestic violence, and challenged the harassment charge on constitutional grounds.
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