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If I get provably burgled 50 times a month, I wouldn't expect the local police to stop taking me seriously. If anything, I'd expect them to streamline the process of investigating and prosecuting the crimes.

If she was crying wolf multiple times, that's one thing - but the threats against her are undeniable.

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"the threats against her are undeniable"

But are they credible? Someone could (and probably has) write a bot to make idle threats against dozens of feminists on a daily basis. Should the police investigate every one of them?

absolutely

I'd actually argue that this is irrelevant.

The key here is that they're not threatening to commit a crime - the threat itself is the crime.

If a man on the internet says that he's gonna come to your house tonight and rape you, and then it turns out that he lives in Britain and you live in Canada, does that make getting the rape threat any less terrifying?

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