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Being an edgelord or even a Nazi is totally legal in the USA. So is hosting violent imagery. These things might be against the TOS of major social media sites
by dmatech 4y ago
Being an edgelord or even a Nazi is totally legal in the USA. So is hosting violent imagery. These things might be against the TOS of major social media sites, but they're absolutely legal. That said, most people won't want to be around people who do this.
Death threats are generally not legal, but ones that are obvious hyperbole might be. Natural language processing algorithms might be able to identify death threats automatically, but they struggle with hyperbole and sarcasm. But so do humans.
- schleck8 4y agoThis has been a moral discussion since the beginning, not a legal one.
- dmatech 4y agoYes, and people keep saying "amoral" like it's a bad thing. For instance, I want my power company to be amoral in customer selection. I want certainty that my power won't be cut because enough people demand it. And I don't want power cuts to be used as a form of social control [1]. Basically, society works best when people stay in their lanes or are at least allowed to stay in their lanes. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_control