Making threats online can result in the same punishment if uttered verbally. A blogger found out the hard way. After making a so called “satirical” post about desires to kill the prime minister (Stephen Harper) on his blog he was arrested and convicted. He claimed he was only joking. The judge was somewhat lenient and handed down a 12 month suspended sentence along with 60 hours of community service. Despite your frustrations with whatever government you’re living under it’s still against the law to make threats, especially the violent ones, to kill anyone.

Just because you’re behind the “Interweb” that doesn’t protect your “rights” to spout off hate speech or any other criminal behaviour. So be careful what you write. If you wouldn’t say it in public, don’t say it on your blog.