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Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by pjc50 on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:09AM (#27747354)
> If you think this represents teenagers in their natural habitat

The internet? Yes? It's not _many_ teenagers, but there's always some who enjoy threatening others for laughs especially when there's no possible retribution. It's why online gaming with strangers always carries a risk of getting random abuse.

It's the adults who run websites that encourage this culture who should know better.

Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by hluska on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:19AM (#27747453)
So, perhaps a minority of teenagers demonstrate extreme antisocial traits? I wish courts were advanced enough to start prosecuting their parents. This has to end and frankly, if it’s going to take silver bracelets and jail time, there are a lot worse uses for incarceration.
Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by thatcat on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:42AM (#27747687)
These pleas to lock up teenagers and their parents over speech are antisocial. Good thing there is the first amendment to protect you from someone using the state to personally seek revenge for any offense you caused.
Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by hluska on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @12:13PM (#27750485)
How is criminal harassment protected speech? Oh wait, it’s not and this is a garbage argument.
Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by thatcat on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @03:28PM (#27753183)
Mature response, I see you live in Canada so maybe you don't understand free speech, but harassment has to be a pattern reprated by an individual against another individual or deprive someone of access to some resource and a threat needs to be credible, but thanks for weighing in on how you think another countries laws should be interpreted.

https://www.thefire.org/resources/free-speech-freshman-orien...

Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by hluska on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @06:43PM (#27755305)
Wow, thank you for the law class. However your knowledge seems rather selective. Have you ever come across this law?

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2011-title47/USCO...

Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by thatcat on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:32PM (#27755678)
I'm more interested in ethics than the law since I'm not a lawyer. Hopefully someone challenges the constitutionality of that law though because it seems overly broad to me.. "The utilization of telecommunication devices without disclosing (one's) IDENTITY to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person at the called number or who receives the communications." Like you're annoying me over the internet right now and I'd like to have you charged and sentenced to 2 years for federal cyber stalking ?? Lol, that seems appropriate to you? I give up, have a good one buddy.
Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by hluska on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @07:54PM (#27755837)
Well, while you were being more interested in whatever the hell you're interested in, your crew of evil trolls accomplished their goal:

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99

In good news, the police are involved now. I hope that every single piece of trash involved goes to prison for a very long time.

Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by thatcat on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @08:15PM (#27755976)
Yea people that advocate free speech aren't necessarily part of the troll crew, so I don't appreciate that libelous insinuation.
Re:Author of popular Audacity fork harassed by 4chan by thatcat on Tuesday July 06, 2021 @02:34PM (#27752530)
It has to be a credible threat