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> Harassment, defamation, concrete incitements to violence and credible threats of violence which meet well-defined legal standards are already illegal with bot
by MollyRealized 3y ago
> Harassment, defamation, concrete incitements to violence and credible threats of violence which meet well-defined legal standards are already illegal with both civil and criminal penalties.
There has to be a will to prosecute. This is nowhere near being followed in each instance where it should.
> Failure to anticipate the shoe being on the other foot one day is extremely short-sighted, regardless of your political views.
I tend to think your comment is basically suffering from the logical error of a false equivalence. The "other side" in this isn't acting with the desire to extinguish and murder.
- racketcon2089 3y agoYou've missed the context that the "shoe" in the metaphor is the act of justifying politically motivated censorship by referencing public safety. Obviously bomb threats aren't protected speech and I've yet to see an instance of anyone of any political persuasion publicly defending them. > There has to be a will to prosecute. This is nowhere near being followed in each instance where it should. If a stranger who reads your comment later goes on to make a death threat towards a district attorney who doesn't prosecute, should you be censored or prosecuted for what they interpreted as an implicit call for extra-judicial violence? Once you legitimize the power to infer hidden incitements to violence in ordinary speech, that power will eventually be captured by your worst enemy and used against you.