Re:ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech – No Matter How Awfu...
by arp242 on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @11:32PM
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Obsessive watching public content could be called "stalking", but is not illegal, or even necessarily immoral.
The suicide claims have been debunked a million times already, and the claims don't hold up to even the most casual of scrutiny if one bothers to actually look at it in detail (there was a good article on this which went in great depth, but I can't find it right now; but the tl;dr is "saying mean things about someone does not constitute driving them to suicide").
Do I think Kiwi Farms is bad? Yes. But "they're bad" doesn't mean everything that's said about them is true. People post fake screenshots of JK Rowling too, or make up ridiculous thinks about Richard Stallman like him being transphobic, or falsely claim 4chan users literally try to murder them over the name of a project.
Post-truth doesn't apply only to Donald Trump and other people you don't like.
The suicide claims have been debunked a million times already, and the claims don't hold up to even the most casual of scrutiny if one bothers to actually look at it in detail (there was a good article on this which went in great depth, but I can't find it right now; but the tl;dr is "saying mean things about someone does not constitute driving them to suicide").
Do I think Kiwi Farms is bad? Yes. But "they're bad" doesn't mean everything that's said about them is true. People post fake screenshots of JK Rowling too, or make up ridiculous thinks about Richard Stallman like him being transphobic, or falsely claim 4chan users literally try to murder them over the name of a project.
Post-truth doesn't apply only to Donald Trump and other people you don't like.