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This incident highlights the delicate balance between free political discourse and courtroom decorum, prompting a necessary discussion on evidentiary standards in the digital age.

1/ Stepping back from this, and who was on the two sides, I do think personal communications, as opposed to public speech, ought to have some special considerations. For one thing, I ought to be able to tell someone ‘do not contact me’. And if they do anyway,

2/ they should inherently be on thin ice for harassment just from that. I actually do believe everyone should be able to direct that they not be contacted on a personal level by another person, and have it legally stick. I tentatively believe the fact the politician didn’t at first know who the

3/ sender was indicates he must have blocked the journalist’s main phone. It seems unlikely the journalist hadn’t already contacted the politician at many other times, given the whole story. The journalist must have been blocked due to previous interactions. And if