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I think that the social discourse is moving in a place where badthink, crimethink, goodthink and so on can be used unironically. That makes me feel unsafe, chil

• tracker1 11y ago
  Hell, just look at "gamergate" from the past year... Even without mentioning a side, or even which way you lean or assign a viewpoint a mention of the situation garners a visceral response. I myself had only seen it in passing mention a bunch on twitter a pro/anti gamergate and it took a lot of effort to even dig into wtf was going on. Even then it was absurd. I think that people need to grow the hell up, and develop a little bit of a thick skin here. I also agree with other comments, any legal charges are best met with legal council, and I don't think the law firm in question is driven by proper motives, which should be to establish if the charges have merit and what corrective actions to take if they do. It seems more about perpetuating murky legal maneuvering.
  • Frondo 11y ago
    Many people do need a thicker skin. The people whose home addresses were published, along with death threats of unknown credibility (i.e. they could be credible, they could be jokes, how can you tell at a glance?) don't need a thicker skin; the rest of us need to make sure that menacing behavior doesn't happen. It's all fun and games until the death threats/doxxing happen. (That's where we go from actual civil or uncivil discourse, which should always be ok, to something that's never appropriate/ok.)
    • tracker1 11y ago
      Just to be clear, I'm not excusing or endorsing any death threats or disclosing the home addresses of anyone.