Richard Kettlewell

I was also thinking of things like deliberately false news broadcasts: "MMR causes autism" is false and intended to cause distress. I think it's quite possible that SHOULD be illegal, but I'm surprised if it is. It's also quite possible the law is interpreted more narrowly than a literal reading would suggest: I massively disapprove of deliberately overbroad laws designed to see how much the legislature can get away with, but it's also common (I think?) to read sensible inferences in, like, a reasonable minimum standard for "distress", or how much of communication looks intended to be taken seriously, etc.