Is it illegal to send curse messages?

Sending curse messages is illegal, involving violation of personal rights and safety. Cursing others, if the circumstances are serious, may constitute a crime and an insult.

Whether sending curse messages or threatening messages violates the law is as follows:

Sending curse information or threatening information has violated the law and is a provocation. If the circumstances are minor, a fine of detention shall be imposed; If the circumstances are serious, they will be investigated for criminal responsibility and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. The subject of this behavior is a natural person who has reached the age of responsibility and has the ability to be responsible. The object of infringement is the personal safety of citizens, and the object of infringement is individual citizens. Objectively speaking, the actor writes threatening letters or threatens the personal safety of others in other ways. Threatening methods include both writing threatening letters and other ways. It can be a direct threat or an indirect threat; It can be a threat from the actor himself or through the information of a third person; Others threatened to reveal other people's privacy.

To sum up, it is illegal to curse others. Swearing others, if the circumstances are serious, is suspected of insulting. This crime can only be dealt with if it is told, except for those that seriously endanger social order and national interests.

Legal basis:

Article 246th of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC)

Whoever publicly insults others by violence or other means or fabricates facts to slander others, if the circumstances are serious, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention, public surveillance or deprivation of political rights. The crimes mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be dealt with only if they are told, except those that seriously endanger social order and national interests. If the victim informs the people's court of the acts specified in the first paragraph through the information network, but it is really difficult to provide evidence, the people's court may request the public security organ to provide assistance.