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I always liked this one I found in the Illinois statutes - it basically criminalizes every person online:

Barratry. If a person wickedly and willfully excites and stirs up actions or quarrels between the people of this State with a view to promote strife and contention, he or she is guilty of the petty offense of common barratry[.]

https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=0720...



Barratry typically implies that this is specifically being done with lawsuits and other legal instruments, not in the general case.


There is a renaissance of such laws regarding causing offense. That would basically be anybody whose face you don't like? I wonder how much considerations go into suggestions like this. Side effects should normally hit your face like a truck.




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