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They aren’t applied inconsistently. Distinguishing between lawful and unlawful forms of violence is a perfectly consistent way to go about it.
by emtel 2y ago
They aren’t applied inconsistently. Distinguishing between lawful and unlawful forms of violence is a perfectly consistent way to go about it.
- Miner49er 2y agoThat's fair and might be true, but not all platforms specifically say that's how they go about it. The TikTok community guidelines don't distinguish between illegal and legal violence, they ban all promotions of violence. Maybe they only enforce it against illegal violence, but then they're following their community guidelines incorrectly, albeit, maybe consistently incorrectly.
- emtel 2y agoIn common usage we don’t think lawful violence as violence. We don’t say that it’s violent for police to arrest bank robbers. Therefore prohibitions on violence are commonly understood to apply only to unlawful violence. No one is confused by this! The distinction only surfaces if someone insists on describing lawful violence as violence, as in the parent comment.