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Can you imagine if the feds prosecuted every idiot who made a death threat online? They have criteria for identifying particularly egregious cases worthy of pro
by wildmusings 9y ago
Can you imagine if the feds prosecuted every idiot who made a death threat online? They have criteria for identifying particularly egregious cases worthy of prosecution. One of the criteria, mandated by the Supreme Court of the United States, is that the threat must be credible and specific. That's gonna be impossible to prove for online trolls mouthing off.
When people play the “I’m getting death threats” card, put on your skeptic’s hat and realize that every person who arouses any controversy gets death threats online. It’s awful but it’s inevitable. Ask yourself if they’re just trying to deflect from whatever controversial thing they did in the first place.
- empath75 9y agoI imagine fewer people would make death threats if they started prosecuting more people.
- hurint 9y agoOr maybe John Flynt/Brianna Wu is just crazy, and he isn't actually getting any death threats. http://i.imgur.com/LDz9CXN.jpg http://i.imgur.com/LDz9CXN.jpg
- empath75 9y agoThey have confessions did you read the article?
- nkrisc 9y agoMark, your deliberate misuse of Brianna's preferred name and gender betrays your hostility and bias.
- hurint 9y agoWhenever an ugly tranny claims to get rape threats, I file it under 'wishful thinking'.
- hyperpape 9y agoAgreed. Not that it matters, but I don't think she's even trans, so we have this dude making up accusations that sound really bad to him, but which won't actually bother anyone reasonable.
- nkrisc 9y agoThe death threats are sort of like a DDoS attack on someone's life when you get thousands of them. You can go after an individual who sent a single death threat but then they're just an idiot who made a single death threat online, right? Well put a thousand idiots who only made a single death threat online together and you can make someone's life a living hell.
- arkona2 9y ago> Ask yourself if they’re just trying to deflect from whatever controversial thing they did in the first place. People forget how gamergate actually started. A bunch of “gamer journalists” were caught red handed colluding with game producers to write stellar reviews for some botched B-list games (e.g. “depression quest”). People were rightfully upset and any discussion on the subject was banned from reddit and similar forums. The “harassment campaign” narrative was pushed much later to deflect from the gaming journalism controversy.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Can you imagine if the feds prosecuted every idiot who made a death threat online? I imagine there'd be a lot fewer death threats if there was de facto official tolerance for them.
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- LyndsySimon 9y ago> realize that every person who arouses any controversy gets death threats online. I offer no comment on the rest of your post, but this part mirrors my own experience. My wife posted on Facebook a year or two ago about her opinion on a mainstream controversial topic, and it went viral seemingly instantaneously. Within 12 hours she'd gotten shared almost 10k times, and received hundreds of private messages. Of those, more than two dozen were direct death threats, some with the names of our children and other personal details.
- marcoperaza 9y agoThat’s awful. I am sorry you and your wife had to go through that. Human beings can be depraved creatures.