As brought up in another discussion here, the charges relate to "threats," which can be spuriously defined, and therefore selectively enforced.
The concern to me is if they might have messaged the apparent victim(s) and implied something like they were going to sell her, even if they never intended to follow through. If not directly to the victim, they may have named her while making up an imaginary plot to do some 'criminal' thing, then the conversation got leaked.
Text alone is easy to misinterpret if it's out of context. And I imagine many friend groups have times where they think of cruel hypothetical plots or occurrences, but they don't put it into something that can be documented and publicized.
As brought up in another discussion here, the charges relate to "threats," which can be spuriously defined, and therefore selectively enforced.
The concern to me is if they might have messaged the apparent victim(s) and implied something like they were going to sell her, even if they never intended to follow through. If not directly to the victim, they may have named her while making up an imaginary plot to do some 'criminal' thing, then the conversation got leaked.
Text alone is easy to misinterpret if it's out of context. And I imagine many friend groups have times where they think of cruel hypothetical plots or occurrences, but they don't put it into something that can be documented and publicized.