Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by uoaei on Saturday January 09, 2021 @12:52AM
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It's not so much about the words as the material consequences of those words.
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Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by curryst on Saturday January 09, 2021 @05:08AM
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That's a bad line to draw. "We're helpless to do anything until someone dies" isn't likely to draw a lot of sympathy.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump
by bbeesley on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:17AM
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Isn’t that the way laws work? You can’t prosecute someone until they’ve committed a crime. The issue here is whether the “crime” is tweeting stuff that starts an insurrection, or tweeting stuff that could be interpreted as potentially starting an insurrection.
Me telling someone to go fuck themselves probably isn’t a problem, but me telling someone with learning difficulties to go fuck themselves and them feeling compelled to do it and hurting themselves probably is a problem.