Is it illegal to send messages, threaten or intimidate others?

Generally does not constitute a crime. If the circumstances of insulting or intimidating others are bad, it constitutes the crime of picking quarrels and provoking troubles, and is convicted and sentenced. If the circumstances are minor, administrative punishment will be imposed in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment.

The plot is secondary:

Threatening others' safety with short messages does not constitute a crime, but it violates the provisions of Item 1 of Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, and should be punished according to law. Malicious damage, embezzlement of public or private property, or in public places. Acts that seriously undermine social order.

The criminal law defines the objective manifestations of the crime of stirring up trouble as four types:

(a) beating others at will, and the circumstances are bad;

(2) Chasing, intercepting, insulting or intimidating others, and the circumstances are bad;

(three) extortion or arbitrary damage, occupation of public or private property, if the circumstances are serious;

(4) Gathering people to make trouble in public places, causing serious disorder in public places.

Legal basis:

Article 293 of the Criminal Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).

Whoever commits one of the following acts of provoking troubles and disrupting social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years, criminal detention or public surveillance:

(a) beating others at will, and the circumstances are bad;

(two) chasing, intercepting, insulting or intimidating others, and the circumstances are bad;

(three) extortion or arbitrary damage, occupation of public or private property, if the circumstances are serious;

(4) Causing serious disorder in public places.

Whoever gathers people for many times to commit the acts mentioned in the preceding paragraph and seriously undermines social order shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than 10 years and may also be fined.

Forty-second "People's Republic of China (PRC) Public Security Management Punishment Law"

One of the following acts shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:

(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;

(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;

(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;

(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.