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If the facts on the web site are correct, than this is really something that needs more attention. One hand you have people looking to hurt this country which m

If the facts on the web site are correct, than this is really something that needs more attention. One hand you have people looking to hurt this country which must be stopped, but then on the other you have stories like this. It seems this would be a story that I think it would be good if it were picked up on by larger media to either help ley this boy go, or bring up the true facts of this case.

rpledge 13y ago
Too bad it just got flagged to death. HN seems to be getting worse for burying anything that anyone might disagree with lately EDIT: Seems to have come back from the dead... :)
- rhizome 13y ago
  "Anything that anyone might disagree with," are you kidding?
  - rpledge 13y ago
    Fair enough, that was harsh. But it does annoy me when people treat the flag button as a downvote button.
    - rhizome 13y ago
      Well it seems obvious you're posting it just because it mentions FB.
      - rpledge 13y ago
        Not sure why you think that, and your karma is too high to be a troll...
- Pinckney 13y ago
  The title is written as if unlawful statements are somehow made legal when posted on Facebook. The site then goes on to make a big deal about that: "all for something he posted on Facebook". Of course statements made on Facebook can be criminal. Threats against another are not neutralized because they happen online. Neither is a criminal conspiracy. So the article blithely pretending that this alone should make us outraged is frankly insulting. The statements in question don't appear to be criminal, but the submitter should link to something that doesn't start out trying to convince us of this with meaningless tripe.
  - rpledge 13y ago
    Certainly criminal statements can be written on Facebook, but could you point out what that is in this case? Should Ice-T have been imprisoned for Cop Killer?
    - Pinckney 13y ago
      Absolutely nothing, which is why it's all the more absurd that the article pretends they cannot.

rpledge 13y ago

Too bad it just got flagged to death. HN seems to be getting worse for burying anything that anyone might disagree with lately EDIT: Seems to have come back from the dead... :)

rhizome 13y ago
"Anything that anyone might disagree with," are you kidding?
- rpledge 13y ago
  Fair enough, that was harsh. But it does annoy me when people treat the flag button as a downvote button.
  - rhizome 13y ago
    Well it seems obvious you're posting it just because it mentions FB.
    - rpledge 13y ago
      Not sure why you think that, and your karma is too high to be a troll...
Pinckney 13y ago
The title is written as if unlawful statements are somehow made legal when posted on Facebook. The site then goes on to make a big deal about that: "all for something he posted on Facebook". Of course statements made on Facebook can be criminal. Threats against another are not neutralized because they happen online. Neither is a criminal conspiracy. So the article blithely pretending that this alone should make us outraged is frankly insulting. The statements in question don't appear to be criminal, but the submitter should link to something that doesn't start out trying to convince us of this with meaningless tripe.
- rpledge 13y ago
  Certainly criminal statements can be written on Facebook, but could you point out what that is in this case? Should Ice-T have been imprisoned for Cop Killer?
  - Pinckney 13y ago
    Absolutely nothing, which is why it's all the more absurd that the article pretends they cannot.