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> but wonder if with more EU like moderation a better site could be formed. > If a UK citizen were to post as offensively as a US citizen they would and have b
by cbozeman 6y ago
> but wonder if with more EU like moderation a better site could be formed.
> If a UK citizen were to post as offensively as a US citizen they would and have been arrested.
The idea of posting something and being arrested disgusts me. The bar around the world for such an action should be just as high as it is in America. If I post that I'm going to come and kill you, thinkingemote, at 10:17 a.m. at your place of work located at <insert address here>, then by all means I deserve to be arrested. I've made a credible threat with credible information, verified by the fact I know your name and your workplace address.
However, saying something "mean" to you, or "misgendering" you, or even calling you a racial slur, should never be enough to arrest someone.
It reminds me of one of the few (maybe only...) great lines from Ghostbusters 2: "Being miserable and treating other people like dirt is every New Yorker's God-given right!"
So it should be online as well. If you don't like it, you can absent yourself from the platform(s), and in almost every case, if you don't want to do that, you can block the other person.
- h_anna_h 6y ago> The idea of posting something and being arrested disgusts me. The bar around the world for such an action should be just as high as it is in America US citizens can be arrested for posting material such as child pornography too.
- issamehh 6y agoDo you really not see the difference between child pornography and what the above comment said? In that case the porn is like the specific death threat. A crime on its own. Actual speech is different
- h_anna_h 6y agoYou post something and you end up being arrested, exactly what causes disgust to said commenter. > A crime on its own With that logic in the UK it is a crime to do what the posters end up being arrested for so it's ok.
- throwaway3699 6y agoCP and violent credible threats are crimes because they hurt other people. Nobody is dying from mis-gendering. That's why doxxing is also an issue.
- h_anna_h 6y agoCP and violent credible threads hurt other people as much as mis-gendering does. > Nobody is dying from mis-gendering And nobody is dying from CP, what is your point?
- throwaway3699 6y agoCP ruins victims lives, mis-gendering does not. Can't you see the difference??
- h_anna_h 6y agoCP ruins peoples lives just as much as mis-gendering does.
- cbozeman 6y agoI thought you were a troll the first time you posted some ridiculous bullshit to one of my posts, but now I'm sure. The sad part is, you forgot your own rule. You got your feefees hurt (which was clearly bullshit also) and said you were "done communicating" or some such nonsense. That's the great thing about a troll. They're also liars.