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> While you might argue that people should be allowed to post anti-miscegenation rants into the void, posting them @ a mixed-race couple is clearly abuse. Not
by notyourday 8y ago
> While you might argue that people should be allowed to post anti-miscegenation rants into the void, posting them @ a mixed-race couple is clearly abuse.
Not at all - if one is willing to accept @mention from a random twitter user instead of only from a pre-cleared group of one's contacts, one does not get to post action claim that the @mention of his or her account is abuse because one does not like the content of that mention.
- chipotle_coyote 8y ago> if one is willing to accept @mention from a random twitter user instead of only from a pre-cleared group of one's contacts, one does not get to post action claim that the @mention of his or her account is abuse because one does not like the content of that mention. So do you truly mean to claim that if a given user accepts any public replies, they may never claim that any public reply of any kind, regardless of content or intent, is abuse?
- notyourday 8y agoYes. Entering a town square one gets to deal with all kind of characters, including the assholes of any and all kinds. If one does not want to deal with them, one simply does not enter the town square and stays in his or her lovely mansion.
- detaro 8y agoSo it's also impossible to verbally abuse people in person, since they could have chosen to wear earplugs? If you accept phone calls from unknown numbers, calls can't be abuse?