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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by anigbrowl on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:42PM (#25740648)
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Reasonable people can disagree

Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by newen on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:05PM (#25741338)
From Wikipedia

> Sealioning (also spelled sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with persistent requests for evidence or repeated questions, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate".

One post is not it.

Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by anigbrowl on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:04PM (#25741734)
It's not just one post. The same person posed something like 15 different questions in the thread. Soliciting clarity on another's views via questioning is a valid kind of discourse, but Socrates also took time to listen to answers and offer his own views rather than throwing out 5 questions in a row.

Also, if you read that Wikipedia article to the end you'll realize that I pointed you to the original use of the term.

Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by newen on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @10:15AM (#25747916)
No he didn’t. He just made that one post with the questions and you randomly accused him of sealioning. Just asking questions is not sealioning. I know where the term originated.
Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by anigbrowl on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:08PM (#25752741)
That's simply false. Anyone who looks back up the subthread can see for themselves that there are 9 posts from the same person and most of them are rhetorical questions. I don't know who you think you're going to convince by making such counterfactual statements, but I see no point in further discussion. Bye.