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'One Man's Vulgarity Is Another Man's Lyric': Toronto Man Found Not Guilty in Twitter Harassment TrialNational PostJan. 23, 2016 |
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 The nature of social media and freedom of expression were front and centre Friday when a judge found a Toronto man not guilty of criminal harassment on Twitter. Gregory Alan Elliott was cleared of two charges of criminal harassment that stemmed from his Twitter interactions with two Toronto women’s rights activists. Judge Brent Knazan’s lengthy decision dwelled on both the nature of Twitter and freedom of expression in a ruling that is among the first in Canada. Elliott was cleared, in part, because — though the judge noted his words were sometimes “insulting and homophobic” — his tweets were not considered overtly sexually or physically threatening. Read More 
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