Is it illegal to send text messages to insult others?

It is wrong to insult others. Whether it is illegal depends on the content of the insult. Anyone involved in insulting and slandering will be held accountable according to the law. You can give a verbal warning first. If it has no effect, it is recommended to call the police directly and the public security organs will handle it in accordance with the law. Sending text messages to insult others is suspected of openly insulting others or defaming others. The victim can report the case to the public security organ in accordance with the law and request that the case be filed and investigated.

Legal Analysis

Sending mobile phone text messages to insult others is illegal. If the situation is serious, you can call the police for help. Citizens enjoy the right to reputation, and their personal dignity is protected by law. It is prohibited to damage the reputation of citizens by insulting and slandering. Insulting and slandering others by sending text messages to insult others disrupts the normal life of others and brings harm to the spirit and peace of others. The victim has caused great physical and mental harm, and the victim's request for the text messager to stop the infringement and apologize is well-founded in law and should be protected by law. It is illegal to send messages to insult others, and it is slander to send text messages to curse others. As for the form of infringement, the judicial interpretation of the Supreme Court clearly stipulates: Insulting or slandering others or damaging others' reputations in written or oral form shall be deemed as damaging the reputation rights of others. Relevant national laws provide for writing threatening letters or threatening others' personal safety in other ways; openly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others; fabricating facts and making false accusations to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or public security administrative penalties; Those who threaten, insult, beat or retaliate against close relatives; those who repeatedly send obscene, insulting, intimidating or other messages that interfere with the normal lives of others; those who peep, secretly photograph, eavesdrop or spread other people's privacy will be subject to relevant penalties.

Legal Basis

Article 42 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China" Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan If the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than five hundred yuan: (1) Writing threatening letters or threatening others' personal safety in other ways; (2) Blatantly insulting others or fabricating Slandering others with facts; (3) Fabricating facts to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or public security penalties; (4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives; (5) Sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other information multiple times to interfere with the normal life of others; (6) Peeping, filming, eavesdropping, or disseminating other people's privacy.