Being insulted by others can be sued. If being insulted by others causes serious impact, the victim may file a criminal private prosecution with the court, and shall be investigated for criminal responsibility if the case constitutes a crime. Ask the court to investigate the criminal responsibility of the other party and ask the other party to compensate for the mental loss. What is infringed by others' unreasonable insults is the right of reputation. The parties concerned may investigate the legal responsibility of the abusive person. If the circumstances of the alleged insult are serious, the parties need to file a criminal private prosecution. You can collect evidence and go to court to ask the other party to eliminate the influence, compensate for the losses and apologize. Citizens and legal persons enjoy the right of reputation, and the personal dignity of citizens is protected by law. It is forbidden to damage the reputation of citizens and legal persons by insulting or slandering. If the degree of abuse is very serious, such as long-term abuse, fabricated facts abuse or violent abuse, you can file a criminal complaint with the public security organ, asking the public security organ to file an investigation, investigate the criminal responsibility of the perpetrator for the crime of insult and slander, and ask the perpetrator to compensate for the losses. This situation belongs to a criminal case, so it cannot be directly prosecuted in court, and it needs to be prosecuted in public security organs.
Whether swearing is illegal is as follows:
Swearing is illegal, but it is not a crime. Swearing is insulting others, which is immoral. Public insults are illegal and should be punished by public security. If the circumstances are serious, it is suspected of insulting.
Insulting others is objectively manifested as openly insulting others, but the circumstances and consequences are not enough for criminal punishment. Publicity refers to insulting others in front of everyone or a third person, or in a way that can make unspecified people hear and see. Whether the infringed person is present or not does not affect the establishment of this act. Insult can be violent or verbal, such as taunting and insulting the infringed person with words.
The crime of insult refers to the act of publicly degrading personality and damaging the reputation of others by violence or other means, and the circumstances are serious. Therefore, if it is not an affront to others in public, it will not cause serious consequences, but a simple civil tort.
It is not illegal to call names in the game, but you can report to each other. Whether it is illegal to send messages to swear depends on the actual situation. If swearing hurts others, you can use the regulations on public security management to punish them. Swearing is neither illegal nor illegal, but if the behavior is excessive and swearing damages the rights and interests of others, you need to bear legal responsibility for it, but what kind of punishment should be dealt with according to the actual situation, and things that are not handled well can be protected by legal means.
To sum up, swearing is neither illegal nor illegal, but if you go too far and swear harms the rights and interests of others, then you need to bear legal responsibility for it.
Legal basis:
People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code
Article 1024
The civil subject enjoys the right of reputation. No organization or individual may infringe upon the reputation right of others by insulting or slandering.
Reputation is a social evaluation of the moral character, reputation, talent and credit of civil subjects.
Article 1025
If an actor conducts news reports and public opinion supervision for the public interest and affects the reputation of others, he shall not bear civil liability, except in one of the following circumstances:
(1) fabricating or distorting facts;
(2) Failing to fulfill the obligation of reasonable verification of the seriously inaccurate contents provided by others;
(3) Use insulting words to belittle the reputation of others.