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Shrexting: Free Speech or Criminal Harassment?, on Free Speech Unmuted

Jane and I discuss whether sending a sexually explicit image of Shrek to a politician can constitute criminal harassment.

Eugene Volokh | 6.17.2026 1:32 PM

For more on the general question of listener protection and criminal harassment, see my Protecting Listeners from Unwanted One-to-One Speech, pp. 1432-33 (So. Cal. L. Rev. 2025) and, in much more detail, One-to-One Speech vs. One-to-Many Speech, Criminal Harassment Laws, and "Cyberstalking" (Northwestern U. L. Rev. 2013). For more on the underlying case, see the coverage by FIRE (Daniel Burnett &........

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