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>You can quite easily use mainstream social media as long as you aren't posting about how someone should be beheaded. Is that so? Curious, because I was seeing
by 1MachineElf 6y ago
>You can quite easily use mainstream social media as long as you aren't posting about how someone should be beheaded.
Is that so? Curious, because I was seeing a lot of guillotine memes from leftists last month.
- tptacek 6y agoWhen the leftists guillotine someone, this will become a more persuasive argument.
- verwyrelevant 6y agoIsn't the whole point of this "deplatforming" to stop incitement?
- tptacek 6y agoYes, after concrete evidence that the incitement is sincere, or being materially interpreted as sincere. (For the record: I think the guillotine imagery is as offensive as the Pinochet helicopter stuff, which is to say, extraordinarily offensive, and I think less of anyone who uses it. That's easy for me to say though, because I'm also not a leftist.).
- adolph 6y agoIronically https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/jeff-bezos-guillotine-protest-amazon-workers https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2020/08/jeff-bezos-guilloti...
- 1MachineElf 6y agoDispite my disagreeing with you and feeling pretty shafted by the removal of Parler, don't take it personally - you're an open source contributer who has earned my respect.
- acdha 6y agoDid they name people, places, or times? A key factor in free speech legal cases is how credibly threatening something is — someone telling a friend “I’m going to strangle you!” after they get rickrolled is clearly not but someone saying “On <date>, we’re going to <place> to kill <politician>” is enough that the Secret Service might want to talk with you. Another factor is the climate: nobody is using guillotines anywhere now but mass shootings are sadly common.