Should Critical Speech Be Stifled Because It Leads to Threats?

An online speaker sharply criticizes a person or a business. The speaker has a huge, loyal audience, or the speaker’s message strikes a chord with readers who help it go viral. As a result, some tiny fraction — but a large absolute number — of the people who read the message send death threats (or rape threats or the like) to the person being criticized. Can that justify an injunction against continued criticism by the speaker?

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