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Re:Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls by anigbrowl on Friday March 15, 2019 @03:51PM (#19403539)
Of course it is, but one has to have some sort of agreed frame with other discussants. Suppose we were discussing suicide cults and the question arose of why people join them; that's well worth discussing, and even debating if there are conflicting views, but discussions of how cults recruit people should be easily distinguishable from actual attempts at recruitment.
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Re:Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls by mistermann on Friday March 15, 2019 @05:26PM (#19404473)
> but discussions of how cults recruit people should be easily distinguishable from actual attempts at recruitment

Hmmmm....can you think of an example of a case where "asking a legitimate question in a straightforward and non-offensive manner" about suicide cults would not be easily distinguishable from an attempt at recruitment?

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Re:Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls by anigbrowl on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:08PM (#19405486)
Yes, I can think of many such examples because misunderstandings can and do occur. However, we are now far away from the behavior I labeled as a form of aggression, to wit 'posting specifically to inflame or upset people,' so I don't plan to proceed any further down this path of semantic possibilities.
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Re:Reddit Has Become a Battleground of Alleged Chinese Trolls by mistermann on Friday March 15, 2019 @10:56PM (#19406127)
> we are now far away from the behavior I labeled as a form of aggression

So, it is necessarily (and always) a form of aggression then?

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